Curated by Charlotte Cullinan and Jeanine Richards of Artlab.
This project uses two models. One that consists of the structure used to physically occupy the space, a minimal, familiar form somewhere between architectural model and exhibition display, and the other an audio dialogue, physically embedded within the structure.
The audio is a conversation between patient and a genetic counsellor. The dialogue is based upon a session undertaken the artist whilst in residence at HGMP. The counsellor, seemingly in control, relinquishing facts in response to the glimpses of the fears of the patient, within a tightly bound model, developed by psychologists to maintain dialogue within strict parameters. Meanwhile, a patient with a tenuous set of ideas about a disease, a demise, and imagined set of symptoms is feeling undermined by the real potential of what they are trying to understand. Operating within a cyclical structure, the conversation cannot end, as one answer leads back to another question.
The form of this work offers the viewer no clues, just a sense of feeling remote from the purpose of its form. This work models physical and emotional experience as one of imagination, expectation and rationality, what we think we know, what others may know, and what we feel we need to know..
