Soft Fiction Projects is dedicated to producing digital and printed matter on film and artist moving image culture. The printed project acts as a forum for presenting new collaborations, artworks, research and writing from invited artists and contributors.
ARTIST BIO
Soft Fiction Projects is a Northern-Irish-based artist-run initiative with a focus on printed and digital matter, founded in 2018 by artists Alessia Cargnelli and Emily McFarland. Selected recent projects includes: Usually or Infrequently Indecent or Obscene, as part of ‘The Law is A White Dog’ curated by Sarah Browne, Tulca Visual Arts Festival, Galway 2020; MAKING SPACE, Residency, Public Programme and Exhibition, Guest Projects, London 2019; SHOP, residency and publication launch, PS2, Belfast 2019; URGENCIES, group show and public programme curated by Catherine Hemelryk, CCA Derry~Londonderry 2019; DORIS at Printing Plant, Publication launch and performative event, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam (NL) 2018.
Above: We have our own flowers. Do it Yourself, 2021, Soft Fiction Projects, Risograph Print on Favini Alga Carta.
Top left: USUALLY OR INFREQUENTLY INDECENT OR OBSCENE , Leporello, Soft Fiction Projects, Limited edition publication, hand-folded in accordion-pleat style, produced for TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, 2020.
USUALLY OR INFREQUENTLY INDECENT OR OBSCENE , Leporello, Soft Fiction Projects, Limited edition publication, hand-folded in accordion-pleat style, produced for TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, 2020.
Research Image for USUALLY OR INFREQUENTLY INDECENT OR OBSCENE, Soft Fiction Projects, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, 2020.
Revisiting recent history in moving image practices, Soft Fiction Projects research focus is an exploration of underrepresented voices, oppositional histories, geopolitical narratives underpinned by intersectional feminist perspectives which challenge and reframe dominant hegemonic power structures.
It didn’t belong to any of us and it belonged to all of us, 2021, Soft Fiction Projects, Risograph Print on Parchment Paper Silver.
Destruction of Pleasure is a Radical Weapon, Soft Ficiton Porjects Workshop, University of Ulster Belfast, 2019.
Doris Launch, S H O P , Soft Fiction Projects Publication Launch, PS² Short Residencies Programme, 2019.
TITLE
On silent air (no.10)
ARTIST
Charys Wilson
ABOUT THE WORK
On silent air is a new edition of works the size of a handheld tablet by Charys Wilson. The plants and flowers featured in this edition of 10 individual works have been sourced from the immediate vicinity of The Living House, North Belfast; a collaboration between Household and MMAS Architects to inhabit and re-animate the building as a site for artistic and social exchange They create domestic landscapes intended for the home, which, through recycled polarised TV screens, provide partly obscured glimpses of organic growth. On silent air speaks of a mediated, digitalised, and disembodied experience of accessing a rapidly fading, tactile natural world through a technological interface.
DATE
2026
DIMENSIONS
24 cm (h) x 17 cm (w) x 3 cm (d)
MEDIUM
Wood, pins, dried plant, section of recycled tv screen, artist glass
ORIGINAL WORK / EDITION
1/10 original works
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Charys Wilson’s practice centres on installation and small-scale sculptural works. Drawing on a background in printmaking, her attention is often directed towards alignment, layering and the subtle relationships between materials, light and space. Elements of the outside are brought indoors, creating quiet encounters through illusion, mimicry, light and shadow.
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