Description
The Motherwall video projection shows a single continuous shot of a wall in an apartment covered with papers with hand-written text. The wall is unevenly lit with natural light. The papers on the wall are a series of letters written to the artist’s mother. They are pinned at the top, and when the wind comes into the room it raises and lowers the pages. There is no sound.
The original low-resolution version of this video was up-scaled to HD in 2014 for the exhibition L’ombre et la forme.
Statement
The image from Motherwall appears in the artist book INTERSECTIONS conjunctions, with the following text: “Manifesting physically as a wall in my home studio, this space slowly became the site of a struggle with words. Messages that I began to write to my mother were pinned to that wall. My mother died when I was very young. I have few memories of her. I came to recognize this empty space as a ‘Motherspace’ that I had to re-invent in order to become a mother’s daughter.” The subject of the work is not explicit, but rather it creates an ambience imbued with a mysterious ghostly presence.