FITTING IN WITH NANNY, MUTTI, MUM AND OMI
2020

Video, 1:38 mins

Dressing in the image of my grandmother, great-grandmother, mother, and grandmother.





Step into a flat space or a thin gown. Chill of satin slip on a shin,

the successive raising of fine hairs. Your reflection on the dark

window like the reverse-side of magazine cut-outs. Press the body

against the glass, look into the house. Hands cup the eyes to see:

four blue women lined up like a birthday.




Unforeseen, ellipsis of sofa cushions run out & stranded here

on one small thigh you permit the floor to be just floor again. In a

far corner she winks behind a tinted lens and bends to pick a sock

from the rug. You watch and, with some half-formed notion

on the tip of your tongue, call out. But as she turns, you blank and

wriggle from it - hop blushingly towards the hall.


Text by Bryony Dawson for ‘Underground Manouevres’, Soft Spot Gallery

Exhibited in:
‘Underground Manouevres’ at Soft Spot, Nov-Dec 2020

‘London Grads Now’ at Saatchi Gallery. Sept-Oct 2020