Saskia Olde Wolbers

Since the mid-1990s Saskia Olde Wolbers has been working with video and has shown extensively in UK and international museums, galleries and public spaces.

Olde Wolbers’s short narrative videos combine carefully crafted fictional scripts with visuals that reveal otherworldly environments. Off-screen narrators address the fluidity of fact through biographies that relate to notions of translation, neurosis, and verisimilitude, with an eye for wit and the absurd.

Referencing computer-generated imagery, her liquid visuals are entirely analogue, shot in real-time in model sets. Skeletal objects, architecture and living forms are given a “skin” when dipped in paint and submerged underwater. Materials are animated through this unpredictable confrontation of oil and water, becoming dripping, oozing, and undulating matter that oscillates between representation and abstraction. These recordings of sculptural and chemical lo-fi processes subvert the truth-telling qualities of filming reality.

Saskia Olde Wolbers (Dutch) lives and works in London and is a lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Wet Wipes

Wet Wipes is a presentation of experimental responses to the post-industrial landscape of the River Thames