Open Studio with Laura Sellies at Arts&Rec Sept. 21

Exhibition view, Laura Sellies, Soit je suis morte soit je deviens oiseau [Either I am dead or I become a bird], IAC Villeurbanne, 2022. Photo by Thomas Lannes

STAMFORD — Join us on September 21st from 12 to 2pm at Arts&Rec for an open studio with Laura Sellies, the September 2025 artist-in-residence at Arts&Rec at 20 Railroad Avenue,

Stamford.

Laura Sellies develops a collaborative practice in which film, sound, sculpture, performance and writing become the elements of a silent language embodying forgotten narratives and future myths.

As an artist-in-residence with Arts&Rec in the Western Catskills of Stamford, New York, Laura will work on a new script about a sound designer who records strange sounds in the forest. She can’t identify them so she decided to follow them. She discovers a place, beyond the forest, where there are no sounds. She thinks that maybe she is becoming deaf but she realizes that it is the place that is mute. She understands that to hear she must use her sense of touch because the air is no longer carrying the sounds.

This program has been supported, in part, by the A. Lindsey and Olive B. O’Connor Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.