Steel, brass, man’s suit, metal bathroom cabinets, audio transducers.
Beloved (2023)
17 years ago after nursing his wife through cancer to her death my brother descended into trauma and depression. Ten months after her death he travelled to Russia in secret and married a Russian girl and together they came back to the UK.
In the spring of 2024 I interviewed my brother about his experience which he’d never spoken about in any detail until that time.
This site sensitive sound installation was the result of this interview. The poetry, vulnerability and humanity expressed through his storytelling enabled me to give voice to his previously hidden experience. I had thought this would be an exploration into the international politics of the institution of marriage as a means to cross international borders but it’s a piece about loneliness, loss and grief.