Bio

Bio

Rachel Ashton is a filmmaker/artist based in Germany, currently studying at Staedelschule, Frankfurt. Her films and texts explore memory in conjunction with landscape and contain diverse fragments of text, documentation, found footage, and spoken narrative.

Her films defy the often contorting logic of linear histories, rather they explore how structuring concepts like ‘influence’ or ‘progress’ come to be enmeshed in the momentary and the fragmentary.
Ashton's practice shifts between film-making and writing. Within these two mediums, she examine the socio-political discourses surrounding personal and collective traumas.

Most of Ashton's work is site-specific which facilitates a personal relationship between the camera and the subject. The characters in her films either consciously or subconsciously navigate self-determinism. Instead, they become authors, narrating their individual experiences through multiple modes of story-telling.

Through this she seek to foreground subjectivity, especially in the form of personal voiceover, while exploring landscapes as distinct individual locations. Self-determination is a binding quality that spans Ashton's art practice; the forms that it takes both in bodies and geography, and in how it instructs my own identity.

Education
Goldsmiths Fine Art (BA)

Residencies
LXL Collective Sardinia, 1st September - 11th September.
Exhibition taking place in Domusnovas, Sardinia.