To work with the demands of one's own limits, then, skillfully - and more importantly: `unknowingly' - manage to surpass them and thereby create a new thing...'Unknowingly' because the work, should it extend beyond the artists initial expectations, has to - can only - do so slyly. To is a two screen video installation. On one screen we see a woman sitting at a table. Sporadically she types. The harsh sound of the tick splits through the space of the room charging at the second screen. There, a man sits naked on a stool. At ease, confidently, he ignores the typewriter's objections and carries on his monologue. He tells stories and pauses from time to time. To is about the possibility for a space of self as it is negociated between two people through language. The growing tension between them, their sway of power and control, resides in the work like a domesticated brute pacing gracefully but militantly in its cage. In Stidworthy's own words: "The work has its form - the form describes what is happening between the two figures...Two spaces, one space, two images...Words spoken, carried, resisted, denied...are both a vehicle for and the threat to each identity."
– Maxine Kopsa
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