In Your Dreams – ‘A Horse With No Eyes’ by Astrid Butt

Fine Art alumna Astrid Butt’s film 'A Horse With No Eyes' is to feature at ‘In Your Dreams’ at Bath Artists Studios.

In Your Dreams seeks to delve into the mysteriousness of our subconscious and how our innermost thoughts can not only impact are conscious but express our everyday lives.

The exhibition showcases artist from across the country through different mediums such as painting, sculpture, photography, installation and film.

You are invited to take a journey through the unconscious where the boundaries of space, time and reality dissolve but most importantly showcasing emerging artist and their dreams as the embark through the creative industries.

Poster for In Your Dreams exhibition at Bath Artists Studios, featuring work by Astrid Butt.

About Astrid Butt

Astrid Butt is a feminist film and performance artist, living and working in Leeds. The recipient of the Yorkshire Graduate Award 2023 and the FUAM Graduate Award 2022, Butt’s films utilise the grotesque and the surreal, burrowing into uniquely female anxieties, with a particular focus on generational trauma and the terrors of the body. Butt’s work provides an unflinching perspective into the cruelty of womanhood, cracking open the ribs of femininity and unspooling a voice that is equally filled with intense power and intense grief.

Butt’s films draw inspiration from the works of David Lynch and Cecelia Condit, creating an uncanny, surreal, dreamlike landscape for her character’s to explore. Her stories are often centred around hybridised human-animal characters, all of whom are shaped by their relation to sexuality, shame and violence.

Astrid is an alumna of the University of Leeds, having graduated in BA Fine Art in 2022 and has recently completed an MA Fine Art.

‘A Horse With No Eyes’ was created by Astrid as part of a Yorkshire Graduate Award residency at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) and was showcased as part of Astrid’s MA Fine Art Degree Show Fat Baby in September of this year.

The film reimagines the site of YSP as a cursed land, in which the women who come upon it find they now possess the ability to transform into animals. Our protagonist – a girl who dreams of turning into a bird – soon discovers that the animals that inhabit the land are women who have lost their humanity and forgotten how to return to their original bodies.

Venue

Bath Artists Studios
The Old Malthouse
Comfortable Place
Upper Bristol Road
Bath BA1 3AJ

Image

Screenshot from Astrid Butt's film A Horse with No Eyes, 2024. Photo © Astrid Butt. Courtesy YSP.