Charlie Prodger weaves moving images, printed imagery, sculpture, and writing into a richly layered practice that blurs boundaries between mediums and ideas. Her work traverses vast and varied histories—from the deep time of geology to the fleeting intimacy of anecdote and oral history—filtering them through the prism of queer subjectivity. Through this lens, she investigates the intricate entanglements between body, landscape, language, technology, and time. Prodger’s approach often holds a surface of warmth and harmony that subtly conceals more unsettling undercurrents, creating spaces where illusion and reality, living forms and still life, merge and conflict. Having worked with reproductive technologies for over thirty years, Prodger has navigated many discontinued formats, and the migration of data between them has become an intrinsic part of her formal language. She is fascinated by processes of conservation and preservation, where materials, time, permanence, and entropy exist in delicate equilibrium. Her work also seeks to counter linear history and its imperative of progress by producing a matrix of contingent, transhistorical queer relations. This autobiographical approach traces the accumulation of affinities, desires, and losses that form a self as it moves through time. Through this multifaceted practice, Prodger creates immersive works that invite viewers to consider how identity, memory, and experience are constructed, mediated, and preserved across temporal and material layers. ...
