The Body in Time and Place

Through symbolic action Becky Bowley’s work evokes the relationship between the body and time through the medium of traditional making and the movement of the body within a place. Her interest lies in poetical dialogues between the memory and imagination of human feeling and experiences becoming a dynamic image of the mythical. Materials are composed as symbols of the elements that resonate with impermanence and hint at transformation - to move the body within time and place “To cross a territory, to walk, to open a path, to recognise a place, to comprehend symbolic values, to invent a geography”5.

Making Connections (2003)





Becky Bowley weaves a fine silk red cloth in silence but for the sound of the loom, thread by thread we're lead through the process of weaving in relation to the female form and psych... watching in on a dream. Once the cloth is woven the character in the tale slowley takes the cloth apart. The threads dance and fall with the body, statically charged by the movement, until the character has done, and fades out of the dream leaving a grave like image of red threads and figurative empty space.
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(Twenty minute video, two week Performance; silk, harris loom, bobbins and mill)

Video by Becky Bowley