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Next exhibition at Matt’s Gallery: Slow Action by Ben Rivers. Other artists’ news includes Jordan Baseman winning an award at the Los Angeles Animation Festival; Mike Nelson At Camden Arts Centre and Willie Doherty in Manifesta 8.
![🐴 Oona Grimes' (@grimesoona) new video work Horsepolish is premiering online at mattflix.video.
Horsepolish (2021) sees Grimes revisit Italian cinema, a recurrent material in the artist's filmmaking practice. She draws on her recollections of Vittorio De Sica’s Shoeshine (Sciuscia) (1946) in a film that unfolds like an outtake from a larger narrative.
Shot in East London's Ragged School Museum - the premises of the former Dr Barnardo's Copperfield Road Ragged School - Horsepolish returns to the marginalised and the overlooked. The work of scrubbing and polishing calls up ghosts, enacting past stories. Street children - whether of Barnardo or de Sica’s era - conjure dreams of empowerment and freedom from the daily reality of their Sisyphean tasks.
Film by Oona Grimes (@grimesoona)
Producer Tony Grisoni #TonyGrisoni
Cinematographer Lily Grimes (@grimes_films)
Music and sound mix Jem Finer #JemFiner
Editor Lucy Harris #LucyHarris
Colourist Jason R Moffat #JasonRMoffat
Oona Grimes is represented by @daniellearnaudgallery, London. Until 5.59pm 20 August at mattflix.video 🔗 Link in bio.
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