Online exhibition with LUX, an arts organisation that supports and promotes visual artists working with the moving image.

Lucy Clout’s video work ZZZ (2020) is accompanied by a newly commissioned text by Elena Gorfinkel.

ZZZ (2020) is described by the artist as a ‘nocturnal work’. Within the video we hear a tired voice-over reading across her incomplete notes during the night. The voice-over moves back and forth between lucid and opaque speech, blending description, anecdote and fact into a looping disorientated monologue.

Language is just one material within the piece, no more significant than the ceramics or jewellery within the video: the spoken word is not proposed as any more articulate than those objects either. Language is under stress in ZZZ. The title sets up the tone of the video but is also used as a filler phrase by the voice-over to highlight places in her notes or memory that she needs to go back to.

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/38372