Richard Huw Morgan in The House That Balthus Built, image by Kim Fielding

Home is not an object, nor merely a building but a diffuse and complex condition that integrates memories and images, desires and fears, the past and the present. It is a set of routines, rituals and personal rhythms. Reflection on the essence of home takes us away from the physical properties of a house into the psychic territories of the mind! 

Shani Rhys James, image by Helene Roberts 

There is an enduring human need to find psychological refuge in familiar places and spaces, but there is no sanctuary to be found here! Through creaking entrance stained with rust, staircases and doorways to nowhere, forgotten corridors, long locked rooms and what is that lurking in the attic? This is a labyrinthian domestic dystopia! Rubbing up against clammy walls a woman ferociously kneads on a dusty floor without apparent purpose. The man of the house, no king and no castle, lord of no where, paces the living room floor... Their offspring, eternally grounded, sent supperless to their rooms, trapped in repetitive acts ...

Image by Helene Roberts

You know such spaces, you are intimate with the characters, all so familiar, yet so very strange. Uncannily you cannot escape the feeling that you seen them in real life, in your life, or a film, a dream or a nightmare.  It is storytelling without graspable narrative, it is a series of moments, it is pure atmosphere.

Image by Helene Roberts

It is up to you, the intrusive viewer to try out differing versions of the truth and to make playful connections.

Image by Helene Roberts

Temporarily uprooted from their home in Llandaff North, tactileBOSCH presents the next phase of MOIST. This time it is MOIST at Milgi and they have moved in to the flat upstairs...literally! Inviting an array of artists, performers and musicians to respond to this former domestic space what occurs is a disorientating art experience embracing performance, installation, photography, painting, video, sound works, and sculpture, creating a dialogue about the interaction of private and public. The viewer is invited in as voyeur in the manner of 'rear window'.

Nathan Sussex performing a monologue by Neil Bebber, image by Kim Fielding