REVOLVER, 2025

Two women with black hair and black dresses sitting on the floor in a corner with white walls and a wooden railing.

Ongoing multidisciplinary artwork

REVOLVER is an ongoing, multidisciplinary investigation into relational breakdown, structured around the revolving door as a metaphor for cyclical intimacy, rupture, and return. The project unfolds through photography (35mm film), video, installation, and performance, employing durational and process-based methodologies.

The work is developed through 35mm film photography, video, installation, and performance. Each medium documents and extends the project over time, capturing moments of transition, fragmentation, and unresolved tension. The revolving door functions as a central visual and conceptual device, symbolizing instability, circularity, and the impossibility of a definitive exit.

Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, REVOLVER remains open-ended and process-driven. The project evolves in response to time, context, and lived experience, positioning relational dissolution not as a singular event but as an ongoing, cyclical passage

CAST: Darcy Bengt, Cassady Clover

VIDEOGRAPHERS: Anna D’Amore, BeiBei Zu

‘REVOLVER’ Polaroid (1/6), 2025

INSTALLATION - CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ARTS, 2025

Installed at Chelsea College of Arts, REVOLVER occupied the space as a quiet, durational environment structured around thresholds, suspension, and repetition. The installation employed thin, semi-transparent curtains drawn along the walls, partially obscuring the architecture and producing a softened, provisional enclosure. These veils functioned as both spatial dividers and conceptual thresholds, reinforcing the work’s engagement with permeability, hesitation, and emotional liminality.

Two television monitors were positioned directly on the floor, as active sculptural forms. Their low placement destabilized normative modes of spectatorship, redirecting the viewer’s body and gaze downward. The monitors displayed looping footage of the revolving door, foregrounding duration and cyclical movement while resisting narrative progression.

Through the interplay of material restraint and repeated motion, the installation framed the revolving door as a site of unresolved passage. The work invited viewers to inhabit a space of continual transition, where movement persists without resolution and relational rupture is experienced as an ongoing condition rather than a discrete event.

Presented in sequence, the series of Polaroids extend REVOLVER’s exploration of cyclical movement by introducing moments of stillness and arrest. The series complicates the project’s durational logic, offering a tactile archive of fleeting encounters that exist in tension with the continuous motion of the revolving door.

POLAROID SERIES

REVOLVER Polaroid (1/6)
REVOLVER Polaroid (2/6)
REVOLVER Polaroid (3/6)
REVOLVER Polaroid (4/6)
REVOLVER Polaroid (5/6)
REVOLVER Polaroid (6/6)

FILM STILLS

  • A woman with short messy brown hair and fair skin looking to the left, wearing a black sleeveless top, with a blurred modern building background.
  • A person with short curly black hair and light skin is pressing their palms against a glass surface, touching their reflection.
  • Man with curly hair and light skin, wearing a black blazer with an open shirt, touching his neck with eyes closed inside a modern building with glass doors and windows.
  • A young man and woman face each other, separated by a glass door or window. The man touches the glass with his hand as they look at each other.
  • A young woman with short curly brown hair and fair skin standing outside with her eyes closed.
  • A person with short brown hair and a sleeveless black top touching a glass window, looking at their reflection.
  • Side profile of a young man with curly brown hair, looking to the left. He is wearing a black shirt and standing indoors with a blurred background.
  • A man with curly hair is touching a glass surface while looking at a woman with short hair and blue eyes on the other side of the glass, with greenery in the background.
  • A young man with curly brown hair looking down, wearing a black jacket with an open chest, standing indoors with a blurred red and green background.
Two young people sitting at a table indoors, one leaning on their hand and the other with their hands clasped, appearing to be engaged in a conversation.
Two people standing on stage, one with a hand raised, with a speaker box between them, in a dark setting with stage lights overhead.

REHEARSALS

The performance rehearsals for REVOLVER were conducted at LAMDA Talgarth Road Studios and developed through a series of choreographic scores written and directed by the artist. The rehearsals functioned as both preparatory and investigative spaces, where movement was used as a method for examining relational dynamics and embodied repetition.

The process incorporated structured movement exercises, including mirroring and isolation, designed to explore proximity, dependency, and separation between bodies. These exercises foregrounded attentiveness, tension, and restraint, allowing subtle shifts in gesture to emerge through repetition and duration.

Alongside physical rehearsal, the process included sustained discussion and reflection with performers Cassady Clover and Darcy Bengt. These conversations informed the development of the choreography, integrating lived experience and collaborative exchange into the evolving structure of the work.

CAST

Darcy Bengt is an actor, film writer and director currently living and working in London. A recent graduate from The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Bengt is currently working alongside Theatre 503 and Riverside Point Studios.

DARCY BENGT

Black and white portrait of a young man with curly hair, open mouth, and wearing a dark jacket with an open shirt revealing chest hair.

CASSADY CLOVER

Black and white portrait of a young woman with short, curly hair, wearing a sleeveless top, standing in front of a wooden wall.

Cassady Clover is a poet, model and art historian, who lives and works in London. 

Currently studying BA Art History at The Courtauld, Clover is President of the Feminist Society and is represented by IMG Models, working with highly established magazines and Fashion Houses such as Vetments, Valentino, Acne Studios and Heroine Magazine.