With One Such Rapture

Caitlin Shepherd &

Bryony Good

Friday 4th - Sunday 20th December

Preview | 4th December 6pm

With One Such Rapture summons experiences of the feminist uncanny through site-specific photography, moving image and writing. Drawing upon feminist theory, psychogeography and practice-based research, we examine women’s embodied and psychological relationships to land, place and belonging.

Our work considers the body and the landscape as connected and contested territories. Both are frequently imagined as resources to be controlled, cultivated, utilised, possessed and made productive. Both may be named disobedient, difficult and unruly when they refuse these demands.

Within patriarchal and capitalist systems, women’s bodies and the land are subjected to parallel processes of regulation, extraction and damage, while anything perceived as wild, excessive or ungovernable becomes something to fear, stifle, shame or subdue. Rather than treating the landscape as a neutral backdrop or an idealised rural escape, we understand it as an active site of memory, power, labour, exclusion, physical connection, imagination, reprieve and resistance.

The project asks who is permitted to belong within the landscape, who has the freedom to move through it. Who is allowed to embody movement and gesture in specific locations, and who is not. Through our practice, we use our bodies to enact ways in which women might re-imagine and reclaim a relationship with specific places in ways that are weird, embodied, unruly and resistant to control.

PREVIEW | FRIDAY 4TH DECEMBER | 6PM