The Crypt - site specific work

The Crypt, a gothic space beneath the church, has the history of originally being a burial site between 1822 and 1854. To make site specific artworks I have taken into consideration the origin of the space, it’s spatial characteristics and stillness, the remaining gravestones and their exact location. Although I am primarily a painter I have not considered painting to be the best site specific response. Therefore I have created the work outside my painterly practice, the work that required a new research and presented itself to be a challange outside my regular scope.

The work I have shown at The Crypt was conceived as “memento mori”. It has consisted of mirrored gravestones and the sound piece. Three mirrors were placed among the Victorian gravestones which confronted the viewer with their reflection next to the epitaphs. The sound had pre-recorded readings from fiction books, relating to time and passing, enhanced with a reverberating effect to mimic the quality of sound in the space. It included excerpts from: “ Angela Carter “The Wise Children”, Virginia Woolf “The Years”, Audrey Niffenegger “Her fearful symmetry”, Erin Morgenstern “Night Circus”, Hang Kan “The Vegetarian” and “The white book”, Hiromi Kawakami “Strange weather in Tokyo”, Amy Tan”The Kitchen God’s Wife”, Arundhati Roy “The God of small things”, Kirsty Logan “The Gracekeepers”. The title of the installation was “The thousand points of silver.” and it also comes from “The white book”.

London, The Crypt, 2018.