Becoming Rain a moving image sculptural installation embodies methodologies of movement, ecstatic dance and repetition intersecting with the impact of climate change on rain and its effects for the individual and collectively. The materiality of the collaged and cast sculptural elements of the installation are integrated and held by the ephemeral moving image video of a woman dancing in out of frame projected over the installation. In the process of collaging a translation occurs, the collaged elements evolve through the act of performance, while the act of collaging engages the performance through an enactment of making and movement, gestures become marks, a mirrored layering accumulates, it is here the choreography of assemblage is found.

Becoming Rain (2023) by Jen DeNike was supported through a Creative Scotland and Art Fund commission with 16N Street Curatorial as part of the exhibition Rupture Rapture: Womxn in Collage, hosted and installed at Patricia Fleming Gallery Glasgow, Scotland.