44 Gatherings by Gabriella Day (UK) is one of the three sets of work that are selected from DIVFUSE Film Archive Open Call No.1 with a theme on domesticity.
Film Screenings:
Session One 8 August 2025 Friday 7pm (+ artist’s talk)
Session Two 9 August Saturday 3pm
Session Three 9 August Saturday 4:30pm
Session Four 9 August Saturday 6pm (+ artist’s talk)
Session Five 10 August Sunday 3pm
Session Six 10 August Sunday 4:30pm
£8 for sessions with artist’s talk and £5 for other sessions | 8 places only per session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets
Running time: 31 minutes.
44 Gatherings (2025) is a film that creates a space between abstraction and figuration with a familiar human gesture: folding sheets. The performers, who are folding sheets of household fabric, were given basic restrictions of filming without being choreographed so that this single-take captures moments of vulnerability and awkwardness. The live guitar, played by Michael Raphael, responds to the movement of the performers as well as the formal qualities of the fabric. The repetition of this over-looked activity aims to abstract the movement into colour and form and to create an ever-changing composition.
Gabriella Day (b. 1998, Bristol) is an artist based between London and Glasgow working with painting, film and collage. Throughout all mediums, Gabriella’s work aims to find automatic compositions that capture the act of placing forms together without an initial intention to make a picture, something that is often found in acts of daily life. Through this process, Day’s work fragments moments of representation until colour and form are at the forefront.
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Image by Gabriella Day
