FROM WATER - installation view (video documentation)
The Exbury Egg from outside at the Lakeside Centre
The Exbury Egg from outside at the Lakeside Centre
The Exbury Egg from outside at the Lakeside Centre
The Exbury Egg from outside at the Lakeside Centre
FROM WATER - inside the Exbury Egg
FROM WATER - inside the Exbury Egg
FROM WATER - inside the Exbury Egg
FROM WATER - inside the Exbury Egg
FROM WATER - inside the Exbury Egg
FROM WATER - inside the Exbury Egg
FROM WATER - inside the Exbury Egg
TESTIMONIALS
I connected to the sounds of the water with my eye closed, letting images pass through my mind. At first I heard not water but the sound of wind through the trees. A sense of calm passing over me. As the sounds got louder my thoughts transferred into a more transcendental feeling, almost psychedelic.
"Anonymous"
It took a while to relax and unwind. There was a strangeness to lying down in a public space. The sound absorbed and distracted me to the point where I felt I was floating, as if lying down in the water. I had the sensation of being visually submerged. The content ebbed and flowed, to me the footage appeared to be filmed in high spring. The lush greens and yellows were made vivid by the intense drama of the heavy rain of the audio, in a way which is only so dramatic when everything is in full bloom.
"Julia White"
Remembering From Water
Immersed
Floating in another sphere
There and also here
then and now
Every river I have known, each journey, every swim
the womb
Embedded in the Egg
Silent echoes and invisible ripples
of magic water, a world and just a second away
Floating in another sphere
There and also here
then and now
Every river I have known, each journey, every swim
the womb
Embedded in the Egg
Silent echoes and invisible ripples
of magic water, a world and just a second away
"Stephen Turner"
ABOUT
FROM WATER was commissioned by Bow Arts and Stephen Turner as part of his ACE-funded project 'Natura Prima’? Thamesmead - Venice 2019-21.
FROM WATER - an immersive video installation that invites the public to contemplate water from inside Stephen Turner's Exbury Egg.
Before the egg there is water. We all come from water and the video installation makes a link between Thamesmead, Tello/Girsu (Iraq), Treviso (Italy), and Santos (Brazil) - where Dani Tagen was born. These four places have a very close connection with the artist: they are all places she has lived - even if temporally. They all have an intrinsic connection with water and also represent milestones in her life.
FROM WATER emphasises the connections we, as human beings, have with one another and water.
The video installation moving images and soundscapes portray the water movements, tides and wave ripples from Thamesmead waters.
FROM WATER is a place of wonder. Where one goes inside to lose track of time and reconnect with nature.
