Patience and Solitude
Domestic Isolation and Existential Absurdity
Video, projection, assemblage and installation
2021
Video light projection installation of Patience and Solitude (1) at VCA Artspace, 2021.
Patience and Solitude explores losing control and the intersection of personal anxieties and global crises on a coffee table. Everyday objects serve as memory and identity markers anchoring the narrative. Pandemic confinement highlights life's absurdity, balancing mundane routines and coping mechanisms with global unravelling.
The full essay can be read here.
3-minute colour video of Patience and Solitude (1), silent.
Patience and Solitude shown at Gertrude Street Projection Festival 2022. (Photography by Astrid Mulder)
10-minute colour video of Patience and Solitude (2), silent.
Installation of Patience and Solitude (2) at VCA, 2021.