{"id":16335,"date":"2020-05-08T13:53:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T12:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonnierskonsthall.se\/?post_type=bonnier_exhibition&p=16335"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:09:08","slug":"my-friends-could-sit-upon-my-breath-and-i-would-move-really-slow","status":"publish","type":"bonnier_exhibition","link":"https:\/\/bonnierskonsthall.se\/en\/utstallning\/i-am-not-one\/my-friends-could-sit-upon-my-breath-and-i-would-move-really-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"My friends could sit upon my breath and I would move, really slow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Cara Tolmie
\nMy friends could sit upon my breath and I would move, really slow<\/em>
\n2020
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The video work My friends could sit upon my breath and I would move, really slow<\/em> was shot in the artist\u2019s home over a number of months whilst recovering from post-concussion syndrome during the Winter of 2017-18. Her domestic interior becomes the scene of a series of detailed observations, filtered through the convalescent stare of a body whose sensorial awareness and capacity for attention is massively heightened due to injury. Each image in turn is discovered through its contact with music. Records on vinyl continuously play into the home throughout the video, allowing an intimate and bodily kind of listening to direct the attention of the lens. The work contains sections of the albums – Birds of a Feather<\/em> by Spontaneous Music Ensemble (1971), Wait Til Night<\/em>\u2019 by Cooly G (2014), The World\u2019s Greatest Singer<\/em> by Bessie Smith (1970), Voice is the Original Instrument<\/em> by Joan La Barbara (1976) and L\u2019incendie<\/em> by Brigitte Fontaine and Areski (1974).<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Utst\u00e4llning<\/p>\n\n\n\n