A project reflecting theme of suffering, family situations and manipulation.
Video of a series of previously experienced situations, staged with the model of the house I designed in the background. A house reflecting places that related to a difficult time in my life, when I was going through a complicated pregnancy and caring for my ailing father after a stroke. The choice of situations was inspired by family photos from that time. In these pictures, there are my relatives or me together with them. I have put comments related to suffering into all protagonists´ mouths. The sources of these comments are mostly texts about medical ethics, philosophy and the history of medicine. They are lifted out of the original context, reordered, embodied.
A mother in a role of father affected by the global aphasia leads a dialogue with her daughter who reacts on unintelligible speech using contra-manipulative statements.