Artist | Filmmaker |
‘Sal’s art lurks somewhere in the shadows; rich with tactile, off-kilter, unapologetic personality. She is able to stride from the page to the projector and from installation to art direction with bold vision and a deftness of touch’
Sal Pittman is an artist, designer and curator based in South East London. Her principal motivation is a visual response to sound and the search for reframed perspectives. reimagining how we might respond to accepted wisdoms. Narratives are from unexpected points of view, they unnerve, question, enrapture. Installations are site responsive and cinematic, archive and human centred. Combining a range of media including film making, slide projection and photocopiers, she creates abstract narratives utilising altered scale, suffused layering of light, reframes, rhythm and story-telling constructing other-worlds, that explore ways of challenging sensory, societal and intellectual perceptions.
Her work ranges from the design and production of multi-screen / multi-roomed distinct analogue and digital installations in monochrome and saturated colour to art books and 2D visual works – integrating original and found film footage, text, archive, architecture, photomontage and collage.
Sal also works in production design and art direction for film and performance.
For the past 15 years she has worked alongside The Neutrinos. Together they make work in collaboration with buildings and founded the company KlangHaus.
All images © salpittman unless otherwise stated.
C.V.
Artist/filmmaker, curator and educator working across a variety of disciplines. My work ranges from bespoke multi-media projects with my company, KlangHaus to art direction, production design and film making. I am also a lecturer in research and design development at both postgraduate and undergraduate level.
Artist + Co-director. KlangHaus
Co-founder, Artist and Filmmaker at KlangHaus – a collaboration in sound, art, and building. KlangHaus is a critically acclaimed and award-winning, installation + theatre umbrella project. The company operates using a hybrid of live music, art and architecture: The integration of evaporating cinematic narratives, song and sound design, analogue and digital light, multi channel film, exist within site responsive installations and promenade performance. We have evolved our work over the last decade into a deeply somatic experience for the audience.
Installations/Shows. KlangHaus
InHaus | HearthandHome. Klang Headquarters. Norwich
InHaus + Darkroom | Summerhall. Edinburgh Fringe
InHaus | Klang headquarters. Norwich
LightHaus | Love Light festival. Norwich
800 Breaths |Southbank Centre. London
Four Storeys | St. Georges Works. Norwich
Alight Here | Queen St Bus Depot. Colchester
OnAir | Southbank Centre. London
LowerGround | Somerset House. London
KlangHaus at the Small Animal Hospital | Summerhall. Edinburgh Fringe
Multi-media. (a selection)
Artist/curator
Threshold – Object Lessons exhibition at Museum of Youth Culture autumn – 2023
I am also now a board member of The Museum of Youth Culture, appointed post-exhibition in 2023
‘Love Letter to a Building’ at London College of Fashion – 2023
Concrete Dreams at Queen Elizabeth Hall – 2018
Production Design/Art Direction
Phantoscopic (Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard) – ongoing
Phantoscopic/Metal
4AD/Beggars Group/Decca/Mute Records.
Clients include Nick Cave, Scott Walker, Daughter, Can, Barbican Centre, Dazed Digital.
Powis Square Pictures.
Art Direction/Film maker
The Voice Project – ongoing
The Mayor’s London Borough of Culture. Lewisham. 2022
University College London, Museums. Live Streams, Multi-media Installations and public events 2020/21
4AD/Beggars Group/Decca/Mute Records. – ongoing
DESIGN LECTURER
I have worked across various design schools for over 15 years in London including London College of Fashion, Kingston school of Art, Central St Martins , Ravensbourne and Istanbul Moda Academy.
I teach research and design methods , concept development and 3D development. across a variety of disciplines at under-graduate and post-graduate level.
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