Daphne Wright: Moving Image Programme
30 Mar - 18 Apr 2026 Online Exhibition
  • Running in parallel with Daphne Wright's solo exhibition Expectations, we are delighted to present an online programme of seven moving...

    Running in parallel with Daphne Wright's solo exhibition Expectations, we are delighted to present an online programme of seven moving image works by the artist. Select films will be available to view online each week from 30 March until 19 April 2026.

     

    Similarly to Wright's works on view at Golden Square, such as Sons and Couch (2025) and Fridge Still Life (2021), the films each explore tentions between absence and presence, memory and forgetting, and public and private spaces.

     

     

     

     

    30 March–5 April

    I know what it's like, 2012
     

    Songs of Songs, 2008
     

     

    6–12 April

    If You Broke Me, 2014 / I Am The Beginning, 2014
      Is everyone ok?, 2019
     

     

    13–19 April

    Plura, 2008–2009
     

    Prayer Project, 2009

     
  • I know what it's like,

    Video projection, colour, stereo

    6 minutes

     

    The theatrical monologue in I know what it’s like reveals unspoken inner reflections. Played by Pamela Benham, the film consists of an elderly woman’s performance of six disrupted statements to camera: it is a haunting evocation of memory, heartache and isolation. Wright’s research for this work led her to examine guilt, love and vengeance, motherhood and old age in literature, theatre and art – from the Greek tragedy, Medea, to speeches by Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth.

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    Songs of Songs, 2019

    Digital video

    6 minutes 24 seconds

     

    Song of Songs poignantly investigates the relationships between adults with their more vulnerable family members. A man holds the hands of an elderly woman in a pose taken from a lovers’ death scene in opera. The power struggle between the actors is palpable as they sing a kind of elemental duet, exploring love, jealousy and death. The elderly woman creates dissonant sounds while the male figure appears to aid and accept her noises and movements.

     

  • Image: Daphne Wright, I know what it's like, 2012 (film still), video projection, colour, stereo, 6 minutes.
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