CARDIGAN’S Oriel Mwldan will be showing works by Jennifer Taylor from Saturday, June 16, an artist who works with film and live performance to create absurd scenarios.

She uses abandoned structures in remote landscapes as found stage sets, around which she constructs fictional narratives.

Ancient neolithic burial chambers and obscure towers in Wales provide surreal, displaced settings that bring a sense of post-apocalyptic degeneration.

Taylor also recreates fabricated versions of these settings within galleries, with lo-fi fluorescent stone circles and costumed performers who gather to act out certain rituals.

Referencing science fiction and the mysticism associated with such sites, Taylor acts as though she is somehow enslaved by controlling forces which seem to harness her energy in some way.

Tangled tubing and cumbersome giant balloons act as ludicrous, ominous props as her malfunctioning pantomimes unfold.

Taylor is currently the Creative Wales Fellow at the British School at Rome and she recently completed the Unit(e) residency programme at g39 in Cardiff. Prior to this, she was the Artist in Residence at Largo das Artes in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

She completed her MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art and her BA in Fine Art at the Ruskin School, University of Oxford (first class honours) and was recently featured in The Guardian for a performance piece in Rome.

Admission to the gallery is free. Visit www.mwldan.co.uk/whatson/exhibition or contact 01239 621 200 for further details.