Tue 4-Sun 16 Mar, 11am-5pm. Free entry.
The film combines spoken word with languorous panning shots of slugs sliding, twisting and suspending from branches. A narrator’s voice guides us through a ‘slug-god world’, recounting memories of a childhood spent hating slugs, pouring salt and flicking them away, to a new perspective of worship, love and coexistence. Palmer’s words, combined with beautifully composed film work, transforms the slug from a hated body into the divine.
There are three versions of the film playing on a loop in the gallery, including a captioned version of the film, followed by an Audio Described version, followed by a British Sign Language interpreted version of the film.
About the artist
Abi Palmer is an artist, writer and filmmaker. She uses film, text, sculpture and sensory intervention to explore sick bodies, viscous textures and ecological landscapes. She is the author of Slugs: A Manifesto (Makina Books, 2024) and Sanatorium - a fragmented memoir that jumps between a luxury thermal pool and a blue inflatable bathtub (Penned in the Margins 2020).
Artworks include mixed-media solo exhibition Slime Mother (Chapter, Cardiff, 2024); film series Abi Palmer Invents the Weather (Artangel 2023); and interactive gambling arcade Crip Casino (Tate Modern, Somerset House, Wellcome Collection, Collective Edinburgh).