Colloquia to open Lorna Moore’s three-channel video installation in Woodstock

Colloquia will open Lorna Moore: Becoming Shadow on Sept. 12 at its Woodstock, Virginia gallery, with an opening reception and the artist in attendance. The three-wall installation uses looping video and sound to turn the room into an immersive study of memory, shadow and bodily presence.

Why it matters: - The installation turns the gallery into a shared field of image, sound and movement, making the viewer part of the work rather than a distant observer. - Colloquia is pairing the exhibition with a new essay to frame broader questions about time-based art, attention and how viewers encounter moving-image work.

What happened: - Colloquia will present Lorna Moore: Becoming Shadow at its public gallery in Woodstock, Virginia, opening Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026. - The opening reception will run from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m., and Moore will attend. - The exhibition is a three-wall video and sound installation built from three looping high-definition video channels and one continuous soundtrack. - Moore is a Liverpool-based video performance artist, researcher and educator whose practice spans video, photography, sound, telematics, interactive media, performance and embodied research.

The details: - Moore uses performance for the camera and stop-motion sequences assembled from still photographs of her own body. - The work presents movement as discontinuous. The figure hesitates, repeats, fragments, disappears and reforms. - The shadow functions as a second presence that is familiar but separate, carrying traces of past experience into the present. - The installation cannot be read from one fixed viewpoint. Visitors move among the projected fields while the other images continue outside their immediate line of sight. - As viewers cross the light, they may cast their own shadows into the work. - The relationship among artist, image, architecture, sound and audience stays active throughout the installation. - Colloquia said the work uses technology with restraint, with the three visual channels dividing attention while the soundtrack holds the room together.

Between the lines: - The installation favors duration and partial viewing over quick comprehension, which pushes against gallery habits built around immediate legibility. - By making viewers physically navigate the room, the work turns perception into an embodied, shifting process instead of a single look. - Colloquia’s framing suggests the exhibition is meant to reward sustained attention and recurrence, not one-pass viewing.

What’s next: - Colloquia’s essay, When the Image Takes Time, is already published ahead of the exhibition. - The essay explores duration, recurrence, incomplete viewing, sound and the gallery’s role in letting an artwork unfold. - Details and RSVP are available through Lorna Moore: Becoming Shadow at Colloquia and further information about Moore’s broader practice is available on the artist’s official website. - Colloquia continues its program of contemporary art exhibitions, critical writing, artist conversations and public and academic engagement in the Washington and Virginia cultural region.

The bottom line: - Becoming Shadow is designed as an immersive, spatial encounter that makes memory and presence feel unstable, shared and still in motion.