Exhibition Archives - CAST

Roman Signer

I have always thought that explosions conceal and create possibilities for sculpture. For me an explosion was always a kind of mental liberation. The pressure, then the fear. After the explosion you feel incredibly free. I was just interested in that.

Songs for the Future

Sound and song play a central role in the work of award-winning British-Greek artist Mikhail Karikis, whose works employ the power of peoples’ voices and of collectively-produced sounds to focus on themes of social and environmental justice, human action and solidarity.

Siticulosa

Set in the Apulia region of southern Italy, Siticulosa, 2025 (45min) is part of an ongoing body of work by artist Maeve Brennan, which focuses on the global trade in illicit antiquities. The film unfolds through a series of interviews with individuals including a biodynamic farmer, an art historian and a forensic archaeologist

Manifesto

Ane Hjort Guttu’s film Manifesto, 2020, (27 min) speculates on the aims and purposes of institutional art education.

William Wegman And Man Ray

Dogs have been a central part of William Wegman’s life and art for over fifty years. His first collaborator was the camera-loving Weimaraner Man Ray, who was an active protagonist in many of Wegman’s early videos, shot in his New York studio in the 1970s.

William Kentridge

This presentation of two short films, made some twenty years apart, offers a window into the creative processes of celebrated South African artist William Kentridge.

Being John Smith

In Being John Smith, 2024, the artist reflects on the ordinariness of his name and its profound impact on his sense of self.

Wind, Tide & Oar

Using a 1960s hand-wound camera, Huw Wahl shot Wind, Tide & Oar over a three-year period. In that time he followed a diverse array of traditional boats and the people who sail them as they journey through rivers, along coastlines and across open seas.

MARGARET SALMON

Margaret Salmon creates intense and beautiful filmic portraits that focus on the minutiae of the everyday. Her close observations of human behaviour, plants and animals are both ethnographic and poetic in nature.

Three Short Films

Films by artists Samuel Bestwick, Georgia Gendall and Jo Lathwood will be shown as looped screenings on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 April. Each work focuses on a place in Cornwall or Devon and examines human relationships with nature and the effects of large scale industry.

Black Beauty

African fashion model Alexandra Cartier meets Jorge Luis Borges in a visionary experience.

The Directors

The Directors is a collaboration between artist Marcus Coates and five individuals in recovery from different lived experiences of psychosis

Clay Country

An exploration of Cornwall’s China Clay industry and how, to this day, it shapes the region’s landscape, culture and experience

Bridgit

BRIDGIT (2016), offers a complex meditation on the relationship between place, time and identity.

FORAGERS

Jumana Manna’s feature-length film Foragers depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel.

FULL OF DAYS

Full of Days is artist Andy Holden’s personal response to another artist’s life.

QUESTIONS OF FAITH

Mark Wallinger’s work poses big questions about identity, and about the social, cultural and political power structures that guide us.

FLECHA SELVAGEM

Presented by Eden Project at CAST, Flecha Selvagem / Wild Arrows is a seven-part series of short films

EVERYBODY IN THE PLACE

Jeremy Deller uses rare footage to trace connections between strike action, protest and political unrest and the acid house

Language Lessons

Language – in its broadest sense – permeates the work of Laure Prouvost. Known for her immersive and mixed-media installations that combine film and installation in humorous and idiosyncratic ways, Prouvost addresses miscommunication and ideas becoming lost in translation. What I like about words is that they are so questionable. I struggled as a child…

Men Falling

Shot from Naomi Frears’s studio window overlooking Porthmeor beach in St Ives, the first part of Men Falling observes surfers as they come to the end of their ride on a wave. In these final moments they seem to give themselves to the sea, each bringing their own particular style to the dismount. This is…