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Abigail Sidebotham

Her Name is Herman

Doc. expérimental | hdv | couleur | 15:7 | Royaume-Uni | 2013

`Her Name is Herman` is a film about longing, masculinity and desire. It follows the true story of a farmer who, in 1976, through a definitive premonition discovered a huge unexploded WWII ‘Herman’ bomb buried deep beneath the ground on the Gower Peninsular in Wales. Weighing one ton and with a length of 2.5 meters this buried and alienated relic of history is seen as an archetype of trauma and the pursuit to reach and defuse it a masculine principle of conquest.

Abigail Sidebotham (b. 1985, Wales) is a multi media artist living in Brighton, UK. Her practice includes works with drawing, text, performance, photography and artist film. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Photography at Brighton University in 2008 and Fine Art Masters from the Royal College of Art in 2013. Her work has been exhibited internationally in exhibitions such as; HotShoe Gallery, London, Altitude 1000+ Festival, Switzerland, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague and MART Galleria Civica, Trento, Italy. She has been awarded a number of prizes and residencies, including the Red Mansion residency programme in Beijing, China (2013) and received an honorary mention for her work exhibited at the DOX centre for Contemporary Art with the prize of a residency in Prague, Czech Republic (2014).