Premio Combat Prize

Cement and Light:
How We Fall (2017) observes a moment of change: Cities fall, governments fall, humans fall. This piece both a study of material and light, and a suggestion of melancholy reflection on our changing fortunes. Capturing a moment in time in 360 degrees, How We Fall (2017) shows falling cement, transformed into evocative structures or landscapes, reminiscent of many of the contemporary images that surround us today.
The work continues Clements’ interest in the observation of moments of dramatic transformation: Using complex filming systems to capture elemental materials undergoing a moment or process of change, Clements creates ‘temporal sculptures’ that act as metaphors, exploring our relationship with change and disintegration, the passing of time, and in this case perhaps moments of personal, political or collective trauma.
The sound for this work, made with composer Jo Wills, is created solely from audio recorded during the shoot.
Sophie Clements is London based artist whose work occupies a space between filmmaking, sculpture and sound. Her work is involved in documenting a point of change - a transitory state between two absolutes. It is an attempt to capture an ephemeral moment whilst at the same time celebrating the impossibility of doing so. Clements combines a science of capture with the poetics of motion and the seduction of the impossible, to create objects from a single moment in time. Employing meticulous and rigorous filming techniques, whilst at the same time surrendering to the inherent chaotic nature of her chosen materials, Clements produces temporal sculptures that explore the futility of our human tendency to attempt to prevent or delay moments of change or disintegration.
Clements’ work ranges from solo gallery works to large-scale collaborative pieces with composers/musicians, and has been exhibited or performed in galleries, museums and venues internationally. Clements is a tutor at Central St Martins School of Art (CSM) London, a visiting tutor at the Guildhall School of Music, and the joint artistic director of the MAP/making project (Music, Arts and Performance), a cross-disciplinary project with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Barbican Creative Learning and The University of the Arts, London
Clements won the Jerwood Moving Image prize for film and video in 2008.