In recognition of her major new work for the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, we are showcasing FVU’s 2006 commission by Zineb Sedira for a month on FVU Watch. A reflection on the tides of history that continue to flow between France and Algeria, embodied in the parallel fates of two iconic protagonists, it highlights the themes of displacement, longing and loss that have animated Sedira's practice for three decades.
 

Craig David Parr’s Wings of Love is a Gothic mystery tale that meanders from hazy memories of a once-ubiquitous popular painting to shadowy auguries of a sinister subterranean psychogeography before it mushrooms and mutates into a weird witches’ brew of pagan Magick and millennial conspiracy theory.
 

Soojin Chang’s BXBY is a radical, semi-fictional work which explores the fusion of interspecies life.

Michael.’s installation cleave to the BLACK depicts the continuing legacy of Black male experience through the form of a moving-image triptych.

A slow-moving road film shot from the cab of a long-distance lorry as it hauls goods from Southampton to Manchester, Andrew Cross’s 3 hours from here: an English Journey is a timely look at precarious distribution networks across the UK.

Commissioned as part of our collaboration with Forestry England ‘In the Forest Something Stirred’, Maclennan’s panoramic patchwork of forest footage is a timely reminder of the interconnectedness of the planet.