East, London
Lucy Clout
Warm Bath
LimoncelloLucy Clout’s ‘Warm Bath’ is a home movie. It is a looping fiction telling two interlocking stories. The first, a group of seven women, each obsessed with the movement of water within their shared, UPVC and mildew, North London house. The second, a man who films a particular drainage ditch twice a day, every day, in the sunny Southern Californian endoergic basin. The video begins as an investigation into the desire to record the unremarkable passing of time and becomes a looking-based experiment in permanence, place, leaky systems and intimacy. ‘Warm Bath’ documents structures that, via routine, maintain a person – physically and socially. Through the nauseating repetitive movement of the individual hand, we see the prosaic economic relationship that is a house-share: necessarily impermanent, a place of continual personal and structural negotiation. It’s a practical, makeshift agreement between themselves: a structure that functionally understands it’s own instability. One-sided stories of comfort, attachment and joining in. Made with the support of Goldsmiths College. Special thanks to Laura Guy, Caitlin Hinshelwood, Kate Morrell, Charlotte Procter, Elsa Richardson. Lucy Clout (b. 1980, Leeds, UK, based in London) gained her BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London (2004) and her MA Sculpture at Royal College of Art, London (2009). Recent and forthcoming solo shows include Jerwood Space, London/ CCA, Glasgow, UK (both 2015); Limoncello, London, UK (2013); International Project Space, Birmingham, UK (2010). Recent group shows include V22, London, UK (2012) and Tate Britain, London, UK (2008). Clout participated in the LUX Artist Associate programme in 2010 and won the Jerwood / Film and Video Umbrella Award in 2015 and regularly shows her films in inter- national touring film festivals and exhibitions.