Bethan Hughes

Image, Sound, Collaboration

Shadowing

A theatrical staging of the tensions between a Berlin housing estate's material realities, architectural imaginations, and constructed image worlds

Bethan Hughes

Bethan Hughes’s audiovisual installations, sculptures, and texts explore unnatural ecologies shaped by industry, commerce, and technology.

In the project Shadowing, Hughes uses media representations of the Berlin housing estate where she has lived since 2020 as a starting point to theatrically stage the tensions between material realities, architectural imaginations, and constructed image worlds.

Conceived as an audiovisual shadow play, the work merges archival research, sound, video, found footage, and sculpture. It questions how imagination, fantasy, desire, and violence intersect in these representations, examining the narratives they communicate, the perspectives they offer, and the shadows they cast.

In late November, Bethan Hughes and her mentor, James Richards, will convene at Gropius Bau for a condensed work-stay to further develop Hughes’s project. They will host a public event as part of the exhibition venue’s Spätschicht program. 

The final production of Shadowing will be unveiled at the Forecast Festival, in March 2026. 

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Watch Bethan Hughes discuss her project. Video by Stephan Talneau.

Project Credits:

Sound Design: Diego Flórez
Recordings: Max Bloching

Thanks to Felix Oefelein for providing archival material.