Grace Slater- A story of heartbreak

Slater’s work is currently focused on capturing an emotion or telling a story through the creation of cinematic images that consider the visual aspects used to imply a narrative. Looking closely at the visual language of story telling, she focuses on features such as colour, lighting and prop in an obvious or ‘cliché’ way to fictionalize and narrate her own personal experiences. Slater is also interested in how the work is viewed, considering sculptural and immersive spaces, that try to trigger the emotion depicted within the images. Her most current work uses projection, film and sound to occupy or change the space that the work is viewed in, which helps build a stronger connection between the intangibility of the mediums and the emotions themselves.

Oh what a mess you’ve made

I’ll be waiting for your call

Three weeks have passed

As far as I can go

A story of heartbreak is a collaboration of image and soundtrack in the form of a film. Slater recreates and fictionalizes her own personal experience of heartbreak, by creating tableau images that use the colour red in an obvious way to imply a narrative of love and grief.

The Images are paired with clips from classical music, each song written about love, grief and loss. The dramatic and theatrical soundtrack is there to help trigger an emotional response from the audience, with the sheer volume alone being all-consuming.

A story of heartbreak plays with the idea of the cliché and the visual language of story telling. Dead roses, spilt wine, the colour red and Beethoven are all used to create an easily recognizable story of a young woman dealing with the ending of a relationship.

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