Two Nineteen-year old girls,

Phoenix Brighton, 2018.

The video installation, shown at Phoenix Brighton, is a new work but arising from two past events. One, Falling in Love with a Chair, is my own memory from 1969 of my first night at Reading University, having arrived from Southern Africa. The second, Wound Wound, is my engagement with a young Iraqi artist, Poshya Kakl, in 2009. The 1969 chair encounter is with a physical chair made of wood with a rush straw seat and the contemplation of the chair as having once been a tree and grasses, in open countryside. The second is of the chair as witness, as we often are seated watching tragic, inhuman situations from the comfort of our sitting rooms. The audience sit on the wood and rush chair to watch Falling in Love with a Chair and on a bandaged chair to watch Wound Wound