CRYPT RESIDENCY 2025: FI

Unheld/Unfold
21 – 23 May 2025
Times: 11am – 4pm

Fi is a multi-disciplinary artist from Gloucestershire, now based in London. They work across contemporary dance, performance art, choreography, filmmaking, installation and immersive experiences.

‘Following my exhibition at The Gallery – Earls Court, earlier this year with my art collective FAWN, I am excited to continue research which is inspired by my upbringing in rural England as well as my interest in Eco-Feminist ideology. Through surreal and symbolic movement performances, Folk-Horror aesthetic and an overshadow of dreamscapes, I am interested in the symbiosis between the ephemeral body landscape and the natural / spacial landscape around me.

I am excited to be collaborating with the incredible sound artist Bilge Nur Yilmaz and photographic artist Džiuginta Mažulytė as part of this residency – Unheld/Unfold. Collectively, we will explore what it means to be a trespasser; our encounters with personal transformation; ephemerality, regeneration and surrender, documented in both the visual and sonic realms. Through improvised movement, video projection, photography and visceral soundscapes, we will present our individual and collaborative musings on these themes.’

Bilge Nur Yilmaz (Tendertwin) is a London-based musician and interdisciplinary artist working across songwriting, movement, and installation. Her debut EP Ship Argo (2024) explores motifs of belonging, memory, and transformation through layered vocals and textured instrumentation. She is currently a composer on Sound and Music’s In Motion residency, developing new work combining music and movement that inspects the body through stillness, balance, and gesture around themes of grief, resilience, and letting go.

Džiuginta Mažulytė is a Lithuanian photographer based in London who holds a BSc in Psychology. Her practice explores the intra-action of homo sapiens and nature. Deeply interested in eco-somatics, she aims to transform personal and collective experiences with this practice into visual artworks. Mainly working with photography, Mažulytė attempts to shift the viewer’s gaze from an anthropocentric perspective towards the acknowledgment of the interconnectedness of all matter. Significantly inspired by the more-than-human, her experimentation leaks into digital, analogue and alternative processes.

When we meet death or when a tree is felled, what is left in our bones? What is left in the branches?

@sophiechinner | sc.chinner@gmail.com | @fawn.collective | hello.fawncollective@gmail.com

@laughingjoy | https://dziugintamazulyte.com/ | dziugintamazulyte@gmail.com

@tendertwin | tenderisthetwin@gmail.com