Layla Vardo

Master of Contemporary Art

My work draws on the cinematic fragment as material process and method of reflection upon cycles of image remediation and seepage into spatial, cultural, and psychological experience. Architectural elements are systematically sampled and then set free from the original mise-en-scène of the movie frame to be transfigured anew as abstracted video montages that quietly implicate uncertain spatial relationships.

The impulse that underlies my practice arises primarily from seeking the void – be it a breath, a blank wall, a pause in speech or a fissure – in the digital materials I extract. Paradoxically this process is hyper-generative, and subsequently gives rise to a cacophony that teeters at the brink of new relational potentials - and the possibility of collapse.