Elements (iteration ii)

George Paten Gallery 2020 2021

Samantha Bews with Denise Martin and Neil Harrison.

The Language My Mother Speaks(TLMMS 2019) was a theatre installation exploring consciousness in a person living with advanced dementia, and sought to express the ongoing connection and aliveness of this person within a multi-dimensional, inter-connected reality.

In this second iteration of TLMMS, the artists bring their attention to the quiet, ever-changing relationship between the person living with dementia and the elements. The installation becomes the poetic expression of the material, metaphoric and psychic resonance of this relationship: a relationship that pertains to all human beings, no matter the ‘level’ of their cerebral function.

Elements (iteration ii) was presented as part of CARE Exhibition Program https://www.contemporaryartandfeminism.com/care

Photo credit Leonie Van Eyk