In Transit, 2-Screen Video Installation with Sound, Dimensions Variable, 2017-8
In Transit [2017-8]
As Martha moves into a care home, she re-experiences moments of her life unfolding within her family house. From moments of personal significance to seemingly incidental memories, a fragmented portrait of Martha’s life with Alzheimer’s slowly builds, revealing the disconnect between her perception and reality.
Four female figures play out these moments across stark stages that resonate with both domestic environments and care homes, constructed from scaffold, concrete and fabric mesh. These disorienting transitional spaces are at the same time hauntingly familiar: environments in constant flux inhabited by ambiguous figures whose identities are never fully revealed. As the film unfolds and Martha’s world shrinks, these environments appear to shift and dissolve.
In Transit is part of the series Martha [Alzheimer’s Machine III], a body of work comprising short artist films, photographs and installation works that explore the effect of Alzheimer’s disease on the way we see, interpret and understand the world around us through the eyes of Martha, a fictional character living with AD.
Four female figures play out these moments across stark stages that resonate with both domestic environments and care homes, constructed from scaffold, concrete and fabric mesh. These disorienting transitional spaces are at the same time hauntingly familiar: environments in constant flux inhabited by ambiguous figures whose identities are never fully revealed. As the film unfolds and Martha’s world shrinks, these environments appear to shift and dissolve.
In Transit is part of the series Martha [Alzheimer’s Machine III], a body of work comprising short artist films, photographs and installation works that explore the effect of Alzheimer’s disease on the way we see, interpret and understand the world around us through the eyes of Martha, a fictional character living with AD.
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Left: In Transit [video still], Centre: In Transit [installation view], Right: In Transit [video still]
