La Femme 2024

single channel video, 5min

Edition of 3 and 2 AP

Woman - Mary Ellen Palazy-Bru

Composition by Tim Mcphee

Performed by Pegs Adams (piano), Tim Mcphee (guitar) Jason Tampake (violin)

In the video work, ’La Femme’, filmed in France, Consalvo calls on the power of femininity and what she sees as its counterparts; nature and the sacred.

Somewhere in France on a property an hour or so out of Toulouse, Lottie worked through and directed a series of gestures and actions with an indestructible and elegant French woman named Mary Ellen. A  series of old structures stand stoic, couched by ploughed and ready fields. It is winter in Florentin.  Lottie and Mary Ellen have in a short time accumulated hours of contact and connection accelerating well past the norms of the typical courting and structures of conventional ‘friend making’. In fact there is nothing conventional about this at all. Mary Ellen speaks little English and Lottie speaks no French, this is inconsequential. There is a clear understanding between the two. 

In this video work Lotties provokes responses and actions, some kind of attempt to access the ‘other’. She reminds us that we are all in the same visual field and that there are unimaginable places and unnameable frequencies available to us all if we could only made ourselves available. There is a leaning and a tuning in that occurs in ‘La Femme’ with some exquisite and considered hiccups. Sweet disorientation and ahhness, it’s an intimate encounter with the feminine and its counterparts ‘nature’ and ‘the mystic’. There is a softness juxtaposed with a sort of feminine masculinity, an intersection of desire, longing and loss which leaves us in the wake of great emotional provenance.