Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone

Feline Hjermind
2022

"Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone" is an uncanny composition of familiar settings; transporting you from dusty attics to ornate wedding venues and beyond. By animating vacant spaces, Hjermind turns backgrounds into main characters. The video questions how architectural structures can have personalities and how interiors might demand a certain behaviour. It brings to mind both surveillance footage and landscape paintings. The viewer is invited to linger in liminal space, while experiencing the hierarchy between spectator, space and screen slowly dissolving. Who is watching whom?

About the artist:
Feline Hjermind (DK 1993) is a crafter of moving images, engaged in shaping a unique visual language—an audiovisual handwriting. She develops ways of "animating", bringing life and character to rigid concepts. Having a frivolous yet critical approach to popular image culture, Hjermind distorts, bends and assembles new narratives. In her work she questions how structures of information, capital and power determine how we interpret, value and desire the images that surround us. Based in Amsterdam, graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2020, received Artist Start from Mondriaan Fond in 2022.