Looking In Looking Out - Paper Gallery

03 March 2022
Looking In Looking Out

Paper Gallery is pleased to introduce a solo show by British filmmaker Chuck Blue Lowry titled ‘Looking In / Looking Out’.
This exhibition features two pieces, initially presented at Tate Modern, London Short Film Festival and at the Southbank Centre, London.

I’ll Be Your Mirror is an 8 minutes 44 seconds split screen film featuring Chuck and her mother, which pieces together fragments of a conversation between them. Together, they grapple with the question ‘what does it mean to be a woman’?

Decorum is a 10 minutes and 33 seconds long triptych piece that plays across 3 screens simultaneously and it shows the unspoken rules of behaviour for women in the 21st Century. It was created in collaboration with participants through inter-generational arts charity Magic Me and the artists Sue Mayo and Pooja Sitpura, with music by Verity Standen.

Chuck Blue Lowry is a filmmaker, facilitator and lecturer. Specialising in art as social practice, Lowry puts a particular focus on intergenerational exchange and storytelling. She is interested in making work that platforms the voices of those who are often under or misrepresented and has worked with a range of communities in various settings, both nationally and internationally.

Chuck’s work has been presented at galleries and festivals including Tate Modern, British Film Institute, The Barbican, Women of the World Festival, London Short Film Festival, Battersea Arts Centre, Whitechapel Gallery and Charcoal in Hong Kong.

Both I’ll Be Your Mirror and Decorum explore questions around ‘acceptable’ behaviour for women. The former does so through Lowry’s personal reflections and intimate conversations with her mother, the latter through performance and storytelling with a wider group of women from across London. These films ask: who decides what good behaviour is for women? What are the rules of how things are, or should be, and are these of any use today? Where do we learn our rules? What do we value? What do we reject?

Decorum was funded in 2018 by: Arts Council England, Garfield Weston Foundation and the Players of the People’s Postcode Lottery. Developed through the Open Lab scheme at Barbican Guildhall.

Linkat e Intervistave :

Klan Kosova : Looking in Looking out
KTV : Looking in Looking Out