Figure Minus Fact
ABOUT
Night, like mourning, remakes space through absence: forms at the threshold of perception heighten sound and touch. When someone dies there is a pull towards the concrete and tangible, but disbelief creates a world of unreliable objects. Figure Minus Fact draws and redraws coordinates between spaces, senses, and objects, groping in the dark, desiring to see something that’s not there. Spaces become evidentiary yet deceptive in a subjectless portrait of loss.
Mary Helena Clark is an artist working in film, video, and installation. Her films focus on how images and sounds make meaning independent of language and the tensions produced when speech, text, and description are introduced. Recent work explores the potentials and limits of intelligibility, agency, and affect. Her films have screened at festivals and venues including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Viennale, Anthology Film Archives, ICA London, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and the 2017 Whitney Biennial.