Presented as part of It is the first chapter of a long movie I am working on and takes the shape of an audiovisual quest. An attempt on navigating through love, hope, identity and intimacy and all its shades. It explores imaginary landscapes as a way of manifest our reality with joy as a form of revolt. It aims to create tender portals, accompanied by a wish of queering futures and representations where intimacy is political. Invoking magic spells, skin tales, investing imagination is an activism. Its power to take action is where we transform, and reinvent. I believe deconstruction is a way to acceptance, it invites us to show ourselves as we are, and reconnect to our own narratives.
The characters in the movie have known this world, more than ever. They have lived in many forms, they have been perceived as many things. Through the imaginary landscapes unraveled in « Soft Creatures » , characters are seen as guardians guiding us through our own core. Moonflowers in the movie sing « Out of soil we’re breathing, yet rooted to the sky », they were born out of soil and found a way to survive communing with the moon at night, transcending earth. The Caretaker wears boxing gloves yet uses them to care and hug the souls they meet on their way, they collect their tears and transforms it into healing waters. They created their space and live in the clouds: there, their marks are their biggest strength, their stories shine and what we consider “ugly” here is incredibly special there.The light pierces through the wounds and irradiates, manifesting new words and territories to venture in.
About the Artist
Bora (she/they) is a wind, a fluid caress, that constantly transforms and shape shifts. Its adventure is multi-dimensional. It is not afraid of all that it can be, of all the forms that it can embody nor of all the voices that it can take.
Bora explores different mediums that together form a universe where imagination is an activism. A mirror of the present where one can reflect, with a burning wish to open a space for queer representations. Through digital creation, installation, sound or performance, their body of work investigates imaginary landscapes as a way of navigating our reality through tenderness. An attempt on deconstruction and acceptance that invites us to show ourselves as we are, and invest our narratives. As Bora’s identity, their practice is multiple and transcend the link between their material and immaterial artistic work. Dimensions becomes fluid: costume making, digital garments, sculptural objects, installations, and sonic explorations, all intertwined and shifting constantly.
Links
Website: https://boramurmure.com/