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Daniel & Clara's Landscape Imaginary tour. An exhibition of moving image, polaroids and mail art came to our micro arts space by the sea for the August bank holiday weekend.
The body of work explored the relationship between psychology and place, looking at how we imbue places with meaning, and how in turn landscape, weather and the environment impact our imagination and state of mind.
"Landscape Imaginary refers to the zone where the inner and outer experiences of place exist as one, it is our psychological experience of the landscape and the dream of the landscape itself. It is the meeting point between the personal and that which lays beyond our grasp."
As part of the artist's weekend in Felixstowe and to accompany the exhibition Daniel & Clara hosted a Workgroup. The free Workgroup was open to 10 artists, writers and creatives who are interested in engaging with the themes and processes that Daniel & Clara use in their work. There was a particular focus on the relationship between psychology and place, and how weather, landscape and environment influence creativity and imagination.
The artist also talked about their use of mail art, moving image and polaroid photography and how the tools they use are connected to the ideas they are exploring.
Since meeting in 2010 Daniel & Clara have dedicated themselves to a shared life of creative exploration, working across moving image, photography, performance, installation and correspondence art. Using themselves and their life together as their material, their work explores the nature of subjective experience, perception and reality. Set against the backdrop of the British landscape, their work presents narratives of psychological disorientation and the human creature in crisis.
Their work has been exhibited at Focal Point Gallery, Kettle's Yard, Art Exchange, Norwich Castle, Whitechapel Gallery, BFI, By Art Matters Hangzhou, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris Grand Palais, HKW Berlin, Fabrica Gallery, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Doclisboa, Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro. Films by Daniel & Clara are included in the BFI National Archive.
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