Gill Houghton, 202
DAY BOOK
Looking at pictures, she was reminded of the lack of time. And anyway, where did all the time go?
In Day Book a woman artist looks at time in an address to quotidian events and their unfolding. Exploring motherhood, unpaid labour, childcare, and the time of the artist, she reads the work of contemporary women filmmakers through the earlier works of filmmakers, writers, and photographers, including Chantal Akerman and Marguerite Duras, Natalia Ginzburg and Christa Wolf, Bertien van Manen and Bernadette Mayer. The inability to capture the accumulation of days emerges—a form without form, day after day after day.
‘Day Book begins with an epigraph by Nadine Wietlisbach, who says that writers should be able to write with their eyes, and for me, that is what this work by Gill Houghton feels like, a camera recording with great interest and sensitivity the minutes and the hours, which includes books and films as much as it does lived experience. It is a work of solitude, yet it is communal, creating a quiet, rich assemblage not just of family and of days, but of writers and artists too.’
–> Amina Cain
‘Day Book is an exquisite and luminous inventory of the invisible, the minutes, hours, and days of the quotidian: washing, cleaning, caring, dancing: life and death. Through stunning photographs and fragmented texts, Houghton interweaves her journal narrative with a choir of voices from Duras and Wolf to Ackerman via Alexievich, gathering experiences to record time passing where nothing happens and everything happens. Travelling through war, isolation, pandemic, and miscarriages, this is a beautiful, powerful, and poignant hymn to the everyday.’
–> Susanna Crossman
Gill Houghton is an artist working in film, video, and photography, exhibiting her work nationally and internationally. She lives
and works in London. Day Book is her first book.
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In Day Book a woman artist looks at time in an address to quotidian events and their unfolding. Exploring motherhood, unpaid labour, childcare, and the time of the artist, she reads the work of contemporary women filmmakers through the earlier works of filmmakers, writers, and photographers, including Chantal Akerman and Marguerite Duras, Natalia Ginzburg and Christa Wolf, Bertien van Manen and Bernadette Mayer. The inability to capture the accumulation of days emerges—a form without form, day after day after day.
‘Day Book begins with an epigraph by Nadine Wietlisbach, who says that writers should be able to write with their eyes, and for me, that is what this work by Gill Houghton feels like, a camera recording with great interest and sensitivity the minutes and the hours, which includes books and films as much as it does lived experience. It is a work of solitude, yet it is communal, creating a quiet, rich assemblage not just of family and of days, but of writers and artists too.’
–> Amina Cain
‘Day Book is an exquisite and luminous inventory of the invisible, the minutes, hours, and days of the quotidian: washing, cleaning, caring, dancing: life and death. Through stunning photographs and fragmented texts, Houghton interweaves her journal narrative with a choir of voices from Duras and Wolf to Ackerman via Alexievich, gathering experiences to record time passing where nothing happens and everything happens. Travelling through war, isolation, pandemic, and miscarriages, this is a beautiful, powerful, and poignant hymn to the everyday.’
–> Susanna Crossman
Gill Houghton is an artist working in film, video, and photography, exhibiting her work nationally and internationally. She lives
and works in London. Day Book is her first book.
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132 pages
120 mm x 190 mm
80 mm French flaps (cover)
Format: Paperback
ISBN
978-1-7385079-6-2
£15.00
120 mm x 190 mm
80 mm French flaps (cover)
Format: Paperback
ISBN
978-1-7385079-6-2
£15.00