List Projects: Mary Helena Clark

Mary Helena Clark (b 1983, South Carolina, United States) works in film, video, and installation, manipulating traditional narrative conventions in cinema to render dissociative states and surreal environments. Her work uses the language of collage to explore ideas around disembodiment, hybridity, and sensation. Her films shift seamlessly between perspectives, both implicating and keeping the viewer off balance. She pulls from the graphic, spatial, and sensorial connections across subjects, articulated in works that include single-channel films, immersive multi-channel installations, and sculptural sound works. Clark uses a poetics that can feel foreboding, a product of balancing affect and reason, hinting at a deeper coded logic. 

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.