Love Me, If You Wish

In her film 1000 Girls, A Place We Go, Sietske Van Aerde leads viewers through a series of playful transformations. Inspired by the nymphs of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, who are constantly shifting shape due to the cruelties inflicted upon them by the gods, the film follows several individuals searching for ways to exist in a world that can often feel heavy. Van Aerde films her own surroundings, capturing friends, artists, and other passers-by as they speak about themselves. We witness a variety of internal portraits unfolding.

In 2004 Picture This and South West Screen commissioned 'I Can See My Way Home' with Spacex Gallery, Exeter, as the second project in the 'Historic Sites' series. The work was originally a two-screen installation produced in response to two historic houses in Devon, Killerton House, a thriving National Trust homes, and Poltimore House, a ruin falling into a state of dilapidation. The caretaker and conservation expert emerges at Killerton, opening the closed shutters of the house, while a torch beam explores the devastated interior of Poltimore. This 11-minute extract is focused on the material Curran filmed inside of Poltimore House with an accompanying soundtrack.