"Passage" by Solange Knowles for Saint Heron
photography by Ibrahem Hasan
“Passage” is the newest work by Solange Knowles for Saint Heron, the multidisciplinary platform that seeks to amplify vital voices and works in literature, art, music and design. In partnership with the Woolmark Company to celebrate the 2021 International Woolmark Prize Finalists (Bethany Williams (UK), Casablanca (France), Kenneth Ize (Nigeria), LECAVALIER (Canada), Matty Bovan (UK), and Thebe Magugu (South Africa). Solange and Saint Heron has created a motion portraiture referencing the process of design and creation in an allegorical amalgam of visual poetry, fiction and surrealism. “Passage” offers a thoughtful exploration of sustainability and its stages of creation, contemplation, conjuring, courage, optimism, vulnerability and discipline.
“I REMEMBER LISTENING TO A LECTURE OF KODWO ESHUN’S WHERE HE SPOKE ABOUT OBJECTS AS A LIVING SOURCE. HE ASKED 'WHAT WOULD A CHAIR THINK ABOUT US AS WE LEFT THE ROOM?' I BEGAN TO THINK A LOT ABOUT GARMENTS, SPECIFICALLY WOOL AS A LIVING SOURCE THAT COMES FROM LIFE, THUS, GIVES LIFE THROUGH ITS CREATION. THESE GARMENTS GET NO AUTONOMY IN THE BODIES WHO INHABIT THEM. I BEGAN MY OWN MEDITATION ON THIS PROCESS. THIS LED ME TO WRITE A 6 ACT PLAY WHERE THE SCENES ARE CONCENTRATED MOTIONS BETWEEN STAGE, NATURE AND SURREALISM. ECHOING THEMES OF CONJURING AND CEREMONIOUS CELEBRATIONS, THE FILM CREATES AN ABSTRACTION TO EMBODY THE VARIOUS EXPRESSIONS AND TEXTURES OF EACH DESIGNER.”
- SOLANGE KNOWLES
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