Claire Orme investigates the histories and secrets etched within and upon spaces and objects, attempting to unlock the landscape of mysteries hidden by the conventional methods of experiencing the world. The structural framework of certain objects and locations can absorb energies and memories as time passes, and through personifying and sonifying them, Claire delves to discover their concealed stories.
She holds an innate need to believe in something beyond the physical world, expressed through the pursuit to uncover the unseen – to see the invisible and to hear the silent. Her practice is very much research-led, using archived material, interviews, the internet and her own experience to examine and explore specific moments, people and eras within our history. These narratives are then transported into the present through the meticulous interlacing of fact and fiction.
The scenarios that she, and her alter-egos, invent reference disparate moments in space and time and endeavour to create arenas in which people can communicate both with the work and each other – a space for social interaction and discussion.
