Do not speak of the north and its sadness...
2024
analog film on Inova paper
a set of 54, 8*6.7*4 cm (8*6.2*5cm with package)
After the 2020 epidemic, I used collective traumatic memory as an entry point into my family and its city, a northern city with a complex recent colonial history and entanglement of natural resources, to visualize on film the ubiquitous ghosts of everyday life.
People here seems to follow such rules: Life and death are all staked on the gambling table. A set of playing cards becomes the photographic bearer of gambling, which is a way of life here; at the same time, it takes the form of what is considered to be paper money, a common ritual object in northern funerals.
The title is quoted from Anna Akhmatova's poetry Do not speak of the north and its sadness...