While their minds wander off into a hidden realm of dreams, the dozing Japanese commuters in Nathalie Latham's poetic looped video projection Sleeping Angels are progressing through real time and space. Accompanied by a charged and highly evocative soundtrack by Dan Parry which conjures up worlds of unconscious release, these ubiquitous travellers, almost oblivious to their surroundings, cultivate their own private space and, in the process, escape the mundanity of underground transit that personifies urban travel in the modern world.
Nathalie Latham travels extensively, and bases her work on the people she encounters through her journeys, using text, photography or video and music. Through her work, she attempts to break down preconceptions the viewer may have, and allude the universality of the human experience, the relationship to self, others and one’s environment.
