SEPTEMBER 2026

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Becoming Shadow is an immersive three-wall video installation in which Liverpool-based video performance artist Lorna Moore uses her own body, its image, and its shadow to examine how past experience remains active in the present. Working through performance for the camera, stop-motion animation, projection, and sound, Moore builds movement from sequences of still photographs. The body appears to hesitate, repeat, fragment, and re-form, caught between stillness and motion.

The shadow is not simply a visual effect. It operates as a second presence: familiar yet separate, vulnerable yet insistent. Moore describes it as a part of the self shaped by childhood memory and patterns of self-protection that can continue after their original conditions have passed. The projected figure and its shadow do not resolve into a clear opposition. They remain in negotiation, sometimes connected and sometimes estranged, in a state of becoming.

Moore’s body is both subject and medium. It carries gesture, tension, rhythm, and interruption before those experiences can be fully explained in words. In the work, memory is not treated as a fixed picture stored in the mind. It appears through posture, involuntary response, repetition, and the impulse to retreat or disappear. The installation asks what the body may remember before conscious understanding catches up.

Projected across three walls, the videos surround viewers rather than offering a single front-facing image. Sound and shifting sightlines make movement through the room part of the work. Viewers may interrupt the light, cast their own shadows, and become briefly entangled in the same visual field as the artist.

Becoming Shadow does not offer a simple account of recovery or resolution. It creates a space in which division, vulnerability, and the possibility of integration can be experienced through the body. The work asks how we live with the parts of ourselves formed by the past, and what it might mean to form a different relationship with them.