Sigune Hamann Mayday

About

Sigune Hamann is an artist whose work encompasses photography and video. At RAUMX, the artist presents new photographic work shot on Mayday at Trafalgar Square in London. Mayday (London 1.5.2015) is part of her ongoing series film-strips, which captures trajectories of bodies and lights in motion in panoramic images. A whole roll of 35 mm film is exposed in an analogue photographic camera in one continuous rewinding movement while moving (walking or turning) herself. 

In photographic film-strips Sigune Hamann traces the dynamics of urban environments. Hamann focuses on the moment when a common goal direct crowds in common movement. As a trace of the march, the film-strip carries its dynamic, memory and emotion.

Hamann’s work deals with the passing of time in the fixing of an image and the perception and recollection of events. 

As part of her residency at the V&A funded by a CEIR Award by Creativeworks London Hamann is taking film-strips of visitors in the galleries and testing how they can be displayed and experienced in different contexts. Her solo exhibition ‘In the name of’ at Durham Art Gallery (October 2013) featured a 56 metre film-strip installation. Recent projects include ‘wave’ (Wellcome Collections, London, 2012), ‘Whitehall’ (ISEA, Istanbul Biennale, 2011),’ Stillness and Movement’, (Tate Conference 2010), ‘the walking up and down bit’ BFI (2009), ‘undercurrent’ (Kunsthalle Mainz and Gallery of Photography, Dublin, 2008).

Sigune Hamann is a reader in art and media practice at the University of the Arts London 

www.sigune.co.uk