Marleigh Belsley, UK and USA
Artistic statment
During my time at Björkö Konstnod, I’ll be developing new work that continues my exploration of the relationship between environmental systems, image-making, and digital technology.
Working across analogue video and photography, I’ll be experimenting with abrasion, immersion, and inscription using materials gathered on-site – allowing the landscape itself to leave traces on the image. These altered film strips will then be developed further through analogue darkroom processes, where experimental layering techniques become another stage of translation between environment, light, chemistry, and image.
I’m looking forward to spending an extended period working within the Stockholm archipelago, where the continuity between observing, filming, collecting, developing, and making can unfold, enveloped within the same environment.
