Charlotte Prodger: Subtotal

<p>Opening with a monologue that guides us through its entirety, Charlotte Prodger’s <em>BRIDGIT</em>, 2016, is a visual essay, a meandering of sorts. Shot entirely on Prodger’s iPhone, the work turns inside out the highly subjective and increasingly ubiquitous form of the personal narrative created through handheld devices and social media. The immediacy and intimacy of iPhone footage makes it an expressive extension of the artist’s movement through space. Her spoken narrative—in which her voice periodically switches with that of another female—takes us through specific moments related and unrelated to the more-or-less static images her gaze rests on. By sharing reflections on past events and recent encounters and connecting them to an ancient history, Prodger inflects her references and images with new meanings. As one scene leads to the next, the footage and spoken narrative fragments build on one another. The scenes each offer a pause, a momentary break, yet they accrue to form a journey through intersecting biological and geological existences…</p>