The Deep River

Brent Aitken

Silver gelatin prints/Animation, UK, 1984/2024

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P R E S E N C E O F

A B S E N C E

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Presence of Absence is work in process about how grief reassembles us emotionally and psychologically. Some works are autobiographical while others result from collaborations with around thirty people in Lapland over 2022-24 on written stories, photographs, films, paintings and sound recordings. Through a prism of destabilising loss, these mixed-media documentary art works explore liminal and uncanny relationships between life and death in human and non-human existence.