Hermitos Children 2 is the largest film commission to date by Glasgow based artist Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (known as Spartacus Chetwynd a couple years back when she was a Turner Prize nominee) and is on view now at Studio Voltaire. The film is part of an ongoing series of “experimental television crime drama” following telepathic detective Joan Shipman as “she uncovers and solves sex crimes” and is screened within a large scale gallery installation incorporating a number of props and interiors.
Wobbling between wacky and provocative and presenting viewers with a delightful internal debate which pits Why against Well, why not?, this new work (alongside Chetwynd’s original Hermitos Children pilot episode from 2009) features gender bent actors telling weird tales involving dildo seesaws at Sugar Tits Doom Club and modern day bull leaping parties in secluded caves.
With a soundtrack ranging from erratic bloops and bleeps to bass heavy thudding thrash, cameos by a platinum blonde shitzu-like wookie, and all sorts of other inexplicable sights and sounds this perplexing romp is a slapdash spectacle that’s best seen for yourself.
Exhibited during the same dates as Hermitos Children 2 is Women with Cameras, a newly commissioned slideshow by US based artist Anne Collier. Both exhibitions run from 12 October to 14 December at Studio Voltaire, 1A Nelson’s Row, SW4 7JR. Find out more at studiovoltaire.org.
