Enjoy is pleased to present Call in your muses, the first institutional solo exhibition by Benjamin Ord, bringing together a suite of existing and newly commissioned moving image works.

Paying close attention to the texture and grain of his materials, Ord works across media and formats, from Super 8 film to mobile-phone recordings and found video, moving between analogue and digital technologies. Loops and edits are made to unsettle an image’s relationship to sound, while repetition defamiliarises ordinary gestures and choreographed movements. Across his practice, Ord draws on his background as a dancer and choreographer, bringing archival material into contact with his own footage while reworking recorded movements into scores for further encounters.

Sources ranging from Hollywood cinema and neoclassical ballet to musical recordings and the gestures of everyday life meet in compositions that loosen familiar associations between image and sound. In the interval between objects and their representations, a body and its image, Ord finds inspiration for new associations, opening familiar material to unforeseen poetic possibilities.

Curated by Tendai Mutambu.