Subjects of State, Labours of Love is a two-chapter film by artist filmmaker Rhea Storr.
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Shot on 16mm film, Subjects of State, Labours of Love presents an intimate portrait of Caribbean Associations in 1980’s Wolverhampton to the present day, and Sheffield African and Caribbean Community Association, SADACCA.
Presented as an immersive multi-channel video installation and exhibition at Site Gallery, this body of work captures the shared joys, celebrations, struggles, oppressions and complexities experienced by Caribbean heritage communities.
The film screens every hour, on the hour, and runs for 50 minutes. Arrive in time for the full screening or drop in at any stage.
Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, Site Gallery and Wolverhampton Art Gallery. The commission and its acquisition by Wolverhampton Art Gallery are made possible with Art Fund support. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
Free Entry
Relaxed Visiting Hour, Thursdays 11am – 12pm
Masked Visiting Hour, Tuesdays 11am – 12pm
Images: Rhea Storr, Subjects of State, Labours of Love production still (2024).
Artists
Rhea Storr
Rhea Storr explores Black and mixed-race cultural representation with an interest in the in-between, the culturally ineffable, translation, format and aesthetics. Her work is often concerned with Caribbean diaspora in the UK. This includes an interest in representing Black subjects in rural spaces and the politics of masquerade. Frequently working in photochemical film practices, Rhea Storr considers counter-cultural ways of producing moving-image. She is currently a PhD researcher at Goldsmiths focusing on Black experimental filmmakers and the use of 16mm film and is a former co-director of a filmmaker’s co-operative ‘not nowhere’.
Selected exhibitions/screenings include: BFI London Film Festival, New York Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Blackstar Festival, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, European Media Art Festival, Museum of African American History and Culture, Somerset House, Whitechapel Gallery and Lisson Gallery. She is the winner of the Aesthetica Art Prize 2020, Louis Le Prince Experimental Film Prize and won the Royal Photographic Society’s Award for Creative Contribution to Art in Moving Image 2023.
