CUT FROM LIQUID TO SNAKE

by Leslie THORNTON
2018 / Video / color / sound / 1 screen / 26' 13

Thornton evokes the instability that humankind acts upon through a combination of several voices – from cold to melancholic to anxious – all at textural odds with one another.
An entry point to the work is the artist’s allegorical use of the Higgs Boson particle, as encountered during her residency at CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire.) In her own words, “the Higgs field can be described as a gel that whips through particles and precipitates attractions.” The voices range from a phone recording made in the aftermath of Trump’s 2016 election, to an eyewitness account of the immediate aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima, to an intimate and distressed encounter between the artist and her partner discussing the Higgs and the difference between thought and language.



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