absent presencetransitional objects of grief
Moving image works which explore aspects of loss through the idea of a visual lament. The laments find voice in a wide range of feelings from melancholy, shock, exhaustion and anger to an overwhelming sense of grief, where there is always a poignant sense of absent presence.
Each lament explores the emotions these objects bring, from hurt, guilt to self-judgement and shame; there presence brings an insistent dichotomy between preserving a memory or moving on. When does holding on become self-destructive?