Charlotte Colbert - Seeing Red London Saturday, March 16, 2024 | Phillips

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    Artist's Studio

  • Artist Biography

    Charlotte Colbert

    • 1987

    Charlotte Colbert is an award-winning filmmaker and multi-media artist. Her work has been shown at
    galleries, art fairs and institutions internationally, including the V&A, Montpellier Contemporain, Frieze & Art Basel. Charlotte Colbert’s surreal and iconic work sits in the same psychic vein as
    Toomer, Dalí, and Breton,” Phaidon. Her critically acclaimed BIFA-nominated directorial debut
    feature film, "She Will", produced by Dario Argento and starring Alice Krige, Kota Eberhardt, Malcolm
    McDowell, and Rupert Everett, premiered at the London Film Festival and won the Golden Leopard
    for Best First Feature at the Locarno Film Festival. It was the New York Times’ Critic’s Choice and
    was described in Variety as “A Superb, Sly Horror-Drama Debut Delivering Otherworldly Feminist
    Vengeance.”

    Colbert has also written and directed award-winning short films, including "The Silent Man" with
    Simon Amstell and Sophie Kennedy Clarke, "The Girl with Liquid Eyes", and short films with Bill
    Nighy, Maryam d’Abo, Ben Miller, and a surreal cameo by Cillian Murphy. Her latest installation
    "Dreamland Sirens" was curated by Simon de Pury and UTA and shown during Frieze London.
    Alongside monumental sculptures, it included a sound collaboration with celebrated composer Isobel
    Waller-Bridge. “Colbert conjures fantastical worlds by blending the boundaries between reality and
    imagination,” writes Rachel Hajek of the Design Museum. Her work has strong philosophical
    undertones and often questions narrative, time, identity, dreams and the unconscious. Narrative,
    psychoanalysis, and socio-political constructions of gender and identity are at the earth of Colbert’s
    practice. Spanning film, photography, sculpture, and installations, her work plays with archetypal
    imagery—dreams and fairy tales—as a way to connect to universal truths.

     
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Siren 2

speaker, on black concrete plinth
speaker 70 x 43 x 44.5 cm (27 1/2 x 16 7/8 x 17 1/2 in.)
plinth 75 x 50 x 50 cm (29 1/2 x 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 in.)
overall 145 x 50 x 50 cm (57 1/8 x 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 in.)

Executed in 2023.

Price On Request

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