Warning Signal
Warning Signal and WARNING: Test for Air by Leonora Oppenheim were part of the Shatwell Farm Open Day, held during the week of the summer solstice where five artists responded to and activated the landscape, structures and architectural enquiries of Shatwell farm. Their various artworks existed in conversation with one another and visitors who attended the open day.
Leonora showed a series of photographs installed floating in space in the main barn, and gave an immersive participatory performance in the landscape around the buildings of Shatwell Farm.
Leonora Oppenheim, ‘WARNING SIGNAL’, 2023.
Technical design: Tom Baskeyfield
Printing: Mark Megilley at Format Print Studio
Nick du Boulay at Inkpot Studio
‘This photography installation encapsulates the body of work Leonora has been making in Bruton since she moved from London in 2020. As an urban interloper in the rural environment, she’s taking time to learn the language of this place. Preoccupied with the impact of human life on the natural world, she notices neon markings on the woodland trees and interprets them as warning signals. Soon the controlled management of the landscape becomes apparent, as she learns these symbols are a sign language between foresters. While out and about Leonora becomes aware of other forces on the move. Something is listening to her footsteps on the land. How, she wonders, can she communicate with that deep presence? As time collapses around her, she finds herself walking with generations past, present, and future. Reaching out, into the air... she tries to make the connection.’
