Big Screen Associate Programme: Imogen-Blue Hinojosa, Rhea Storr

Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present programme of artist moving image to run alongside the exhibition After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989–2024. Works by Imogen-Blue Hinojosa and Rhea Storr look at how bodies and communities occupy and reclaim public space through music and dance, themes which are present in the show.

Screened daily from 11am to 5pm on Big Screen Southend from 29 June to 15 September 2024.

Films in order of appearance:

Imogen-Blue Hinojosa, Kameha-Mija!, 2019, digital video/live performance, 03:39 mins
Kameha-Mija! takes place on Deptford High Steet in South London. This high street was a place Hinojosa traversed daily, en route to the studio, and the location of where she experienced numerous instances of harassment and attacks. In this film/live performance, the artist transforms the street into a catwalk, voguing through the public streets as a protest. Creating a spectacle focused on trans joy, celebrating the trans body, was motivated by a need to double down and remind the public that trans people aren’t going anywhere.

Rhea Storr, A Protest, A Celebration, A Mixed Message, 2018. Super16 film, colour, 5.1 surround, 11:00 mins
Celebration is protest at Leeds West Indian Carnival. A look at forms of authority, A Protest, A Celebration, A Mixed Message asks who performs and who spectates. Following Mama Dread’s, a troupe whose carnival theme is Caribbean immigration to the UK, we are asked to consider the visibility of black bodies, particularly in rural spaces. The film considers how easy it is to represent oneself culturally as a Mixed-race person in the UK and the ways in which Black bodies become visible, questioning ownership or appropriation of Black culture.