OPEN STUDIO | 22-25 August, 2024, 16:00 – 20:00
ARTIST TALK | 25 August 2024, 18:00

We are thrilled to present the work of Tom Connell Wilson, artist resident at Zaratan, who will be presenting An August Note, a brand new short film recorded and produced during his stay in Lisbon.

An August Note traces the act of looking for something illusive. A fractured, intermittent narrative anchors the work, beginning with the discovery of an e-mail containing hundreds of files and a singular note from an unnamed sender. As the film unfolds, we are witness to the contents of the files; inspecting clues that speculate the filmmaker’s whereabouts, the supposed missing films, their past life and methodology. These we absorb, confronted by a narration that leads us on a detoured journey, arcing through memories, fables, observations of the city and a fractured, conjectural analysis of the filmmaker’s fate.

To complement the screening, the artist’s studio will be open to the public to share materials and pieces of writing that have informed the work and the artist’s own way of making, as a study of self-reflexivity. 

On August 25 at 6:00 PM, Tom will be available to introduce his artistic practice and to lead visitors on a discussion around the creation imaginary of the work developped during the residency.

BIO: TOM CONNELL WILSON is an artist, writer and filmmaker from London. His work interrogates the intersections between memory and landscape, reimagining sites through the retelling of speculative narratives. Adhering to this methodology, the resulting combinations are often presented through moving image alongside short fictions that elongate this fragmented matter; the marginalia, notes, forewords and prefaces, lost possessions and recovered ephemera that sprawl from these peripheries. Since graduating from Goldsmiths, University of London Wilson has exhibited at South London Gallery, Southwark Park Galleries and St. James’ Gallery, Christie’s as well as numerous independent galleries and venues across Europe. He was also selected for New Contemporaries in 2021.