Competition Gallery
Emma Critchley
The Internalisation of Breath
Critchley's practice draws on the experience of being immersed underwater as a way of exploring notions of being. In the underwater space, detached from the everyday, our basic structure of being changes. There is a shift in the senses, which necessitates both a physical and mental realignment. The body becomes suspended in a threshold state between in-breath and out, internal and external, conscious and subconscious. It is held within a fragile, transitory temporality sustained only by the breath. The interruption of this otherwise reflexive function of breathing becomes a reminder of the fragility of life.
A Shift in Sight, Sound, Movement & Breath I
Critchley's practice draws on the experience of being immersed underwater as a way of exploring notions of being. In the underwater space, detached from the everyday, our basic structure of being changes. There is a shift in the senses, which necessitates both a physical and mental realignment. The body becomes suspended in a threshold state between in-breath and out, internal and external, conscious and subconscious. It is held within a fragile, transitory temporality sustained only by the breath. The interruption of this otherwise reflexive function of breathing becomes a reminder of the fragility of life.
A Shift in Sight, Sound, Movement & Breath II
Critchley's practice draws on the experience of being immersed underwater as a way of exploring notions of being. In the underwater space, detached from the everyday, our basic structure of being changes. There is a shift in the senses, which necessitates both a physical and mental realignment. The body becomes suspended in a threshold state between in-breath and out, internal and external, conscious and subconscious. It is held within a fragile, transitory temporality sustained only by the breath. The interruption of this otherwise reflexive function of breathing becomes a reminder of the fragility of life.
Freediver Portraits, 4 metres
Critchley's practice draws on the experience of being immersed underwater as a way of exploring notions of being. In the underwater space, detached from the everyday, our basic structure of being changes. There is a shift in the senses, which necessitates both a physical and mental realignment. The body becomes suspended in a threshold state between in-breath and out, internal and external, conscious and subconscious. It is held within a fragile, transitory temporality sustained only by the breath. The interruption of this otherwise reflexive function of breathing becomes a reminder of the fragility of life.
