An exhibition presenting two films by Hope Pearl Strickland, exploring the interrelation of water, memory and labour.
Hope Pearl Strickland is showing two of her films at the John Hansard Gallery from 25 June to 25 July, a month-long run that lets you take your time with them. The exhibition is titled a river holds a perfect memory, and that's also the name of the main film on display.
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a river holds a perfect memory (2024) is a piece that works across two very different landscapes. It follows the waterways of Jamaica — rafting down the Martha Brae river and a night trip through the bioluminescent lagoon at Falmouth — and cuts those together with archive footage of the industrial north of England, where water was turned into a resource, including a reservoir in Rochdale. Strickland mixes that archive with new 16mm footage and LIDAR scans, and she describes the result as having a musical, rhythmic sense of time. It's a film that sits between those two places, thinking about water, memory, and labour migration.
The whole exhibition brings together two of her films, both looking at how water, memory and labour tie into one another. If you're into contemporary art, author cinema or photography, it's right up your street. The John Hansard Gallery is at 142-144 Above Bar Street, Southampton, SO14 7DU, and the show runs from 25 June through to 25 July.
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