Serpentine Cinema: CINACT - Claire Hooper
2010, 120 mins
Serpentine Cinema presents the UK premiere of the Baloise Prize-winning film NYX by Claire Hooper.
Shot on location across Berlin's modernist U-Bahn network, the film examines the Ancient Greek concept of 'the night' to interrogate the semiotic relationships between sleep, death, hallucination and oblivion.
Following on from her 2008 film NACH SPANDAU - a nocturnal architectural lament on the U7 line - NYX uses the same location as a set to represent the underground domain of Nyx, the goddess of the night.
Hallucinating and disorientated, the film follows a drunken young man as he is caught in the cross-fire of her aggressive encounters with related gods Hypnos, Nemesis and The Erinyes (Furies).
Claire Hooper was born in 1978 and lives and works in London. She has participated in numerous exhibitions and screenings internationally.
Her recent and forthcoming shows include Time Machine and Anywhere Door, IT Park, Taipei; Art Statements, ArtBasel 41, Basel; Nach Spandau, Hollybush Gardens, London; The Blessing, Sketch, London; An Archaeology, Zabludowicz Collection at 176, London and Galerie Kamm, Berlin; A New Stance for Tomorrow, Sketch, London, Bidoun Artists Cinema, Dubai and Tribeca Grand Screen, New York; Claire Hooper & Mahomi Kunikata, LARM Gallery, Copenhagen.
She is the 2010 winner of The Baloise Art Prize 2010, which honours two young artists every year and is presented at the 'Art Statements' sector of the International ArtBasel fair by a jury of renowned experts.
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