MIRIAM
HD film, 2013, 8 mins
An uncle talks about his wife Miriam.
Can be shown as a video projection or on a monitor with two sets of headphones.
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“In Miriam, Myrid Carten provides an intimate filmic portrait of her uncle and mother to consider the complex relationship between trauma, mental illness and alternatives states of being. Miriam gently questions the fallibility of memory and reality. In this film, the artist employs techniques such as lip-syncing and performs the role of her mother as a Beckettian, disembodied ‘talking head’ in order to draw attention to the gap between sound and vision and reveal and undermine the illusion of reality by acknowledging its construction.”
- Text from Curator Alissa Kleist for AMINI International Touring