Images: Michael PollardRelic (2026)
Three-channel audio-video installation, 10 mins approx.
Commissioned for Curtain Up group exhibition, Lowry, Salford, 17/04/26 - 21/06/26
Relic is a video installation presented in 360-degrees as an animated peep board. To see the work, visitors must look through face holes cut into an enclosed structure, becoming embodied within a projected film as they do so. Viewers are faced with each other as well as other onlookers within the film, playfully muddling the sense of a singular perspective or audience.
The work collages together moving image of Loughborough Fair, my local fairground growing up, which I have documented annually since 2012. Loughborough Fair is one of the UK’s few surviving Medieval charter fairs dating back to the 1200s that still annually occupies town-centre streets. Relic evokes this long history, drawing on associations of pilgrimage, iconography and transcendence, accompanied by a visceral soundscape of field recordings by composer and sound designer Stefan Smith.
Credits
DOP - Paul Daly
Producer - Scout Stuart
Sound Design - Stefan Smith
Projection - Max Thompson
Three-channel audio-video installation, 10 mins approx.
Commissioned for Curtain Up group exhibition, Lowry, Salford, 17/04/26 - 21/06/26
Relic is a video installation presented in 360-degrees as an animated peep board. To see the work, visitors must look through face holes cut into an enclosed structure, becoming embodied within a projected film as they do so. Viewers are faced with each other as well as other onlookers within the film, playfully muddling the sense of a singular perspective or audience.
The work collages together moving image of Loughborough Fair, my local fairground growing up, which I have documented annually since 2012. Loughborough Fair is one of the UK’s few surviving Medieval charter fairs dating back to the 1200s that still annually occupies town-centre streets. Relic evokes this long history, drawing on associations of pilgrimage, iconography and transcendence, accompanied by a visceral soundscape of field recordings by composer and sound designer Stefan Smith.
Credits
DOP - Paul Daly
Producer - Scout Stuart
Sound Design - Stefan Smith
Projection - Max Thompson
“Loughborough Fair is quite literally a medieval relic, and the various strands of Curtain Up conjoin in Hill’s installation. Palpably generating collective effervescence, its dizzying effect does at times come close to the transcendental thrill we seek on fairground rides, those precious moments when we lose ourselves entirely. I think of Dewey again, wondering how close the hedonistic rush of the fairground could be to a supernatural experience of communion. Has Hill found, and recreated in this gallery, one of the true sites of secular religious experience? Or perhaps, by packaging it within the props of its own artifice and turning our gaze back on ourselves, she’s done something more interesting.”
- Jazmine Linklater, Curtain Up Review, Corridor8
- Jazmine Linklater, Curtain Up Review, Corridor8