lizhelman

Time Traveller

Time Traveller, a new experimental short from Liz Helman, explores childhood memories within the context of dislocation and displacement navigating through nostalgia, time and space.

The work becomes a vehicle in which to confront our former selves, journeying between recollection and reality; it fragments, collages and repeats images and sounds that seep into our daily lives, acting as a trigger to our thoughts and daydreams.

Time Traveller

still from new video work about memory and place

Inside Out

Liz's short films screen in 2011 at>>>

LOOP video festival, Barcelona, 11th May-21st

FrinGe! the East London gay film fest 8th-10th April

London Lesbian Gay Film Festival 31st March - 6th April

Wunderland, tactileBOSCH Gallery, Cardiff, 6th March - 18th March

Propeller Island at SUPERMARKET, Stockholm Art Fair 18th - 2Oth February

morning silence

inside out

outside

Liz Helman is a London-based visual artist and independent curator. In her art practice she uses photography and moving image to explore memory, dislocation and displacement. She offers a self-reflective personal vision which navigates through disempowerment to awareness.

Her time-based media works use various digital formats and qualities, collaging and multilayering elements to create sometimes painterly imagery, combining dissonant and harmonious graphics with text and sound.

Video Works have been shown in London and abroad including LLGFF BFI 2011; FrinGe Film Fest 2011; Wunderland at tactileBosch, Cardiff 2011; Supermarket Stockholm Art Fair 2011; Whitechapel Gallery Open Screenings, 2010; Rich Mix Cultural Centre, London, UK, 10; Counted Weekend Festival, Roundhouse, London, 2010; Portobello Film Festival 2008; Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust 2008; Picasso’s Laboratory – St James Cavalier, Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta 2007; WAVE [Hybridity, Identity & the Self] – Ewha Arts Center, M-Post Gallery, Seoul, Korea, 2006.

Independent curation projects include Roma London in 2010; Before.After.Now – Visions of Iraq – a show on Iraqi Art Deluxe Gallery, Hoxton, London 2003. More recently, she has appeared as an Andy Warhol in Yason Banal’s installationpiece, Last Warhol Stand Inn at Tate Modern’s 10th Anniversary Festival of Independents in 2010.

from PLACE: Tacita Dean/Jeremy Millar

For most of us, the city is a backdrop to our lives. Familiar and yet sometimes sinister, the streets are at once the site of social interaction, and something darker, something more violent. But as cities grow they begin to resemble one another, becoming ever expanding mass. What does this do to our sense of place, and our sense of ourselves? Do we connect to them in new ways? Do we live in an accumulated city, the collected memory of all the cities we have known? To live in the city, must we assume the position of the anonymous stranger?