SHADOWSWELL
SHADOWSWELL, under the artistic direction of Eilish Henderson creates project-based interdisciplinary works grounded in movement. The current body of work investigates the body in relation to earth, creatures, non corporeal beings, and other humans, often working directly with land or sea. This research is influenced by the transience of our time on earth, the planet’s decaying state, and objectification of nature.
SHADOWSWELL will premiere it's first self-produced work alongside Verbal Animal on January 31, 2025 at Kestrels. Stay tuned for additional details.
Photo by Alexandros Grammatikopoulos
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"SHADOWSWELL, consisting of Shuning Huang and Eilish Henderson, presented Garden of Ruins, fixating on cycles of rebirth. As the pair emerge from the floor, a video projection jumps briskly between bits of anatomical imagery in sepia tones. Most prevalent is a close examination of cocoons, situating the slight shifts of the movers as a kind of metamorphosis. For Huang and Henderson, this metamorphosis is made metaphorical in their gradual journey from separate to conjoined as they meet back-to-back, nestle their heads, and tangle their limbs. Their eventual stumbling apart, in turn, equally evokes the demise of a relationship, as well as the hope in cellular division eventually developing a complex organism."
- Jonathan Matthews Guzman, Eye on the Arts NY, reviewing "Garden of Ruins" for the 8th Annual Queer Butoh Festival