Daphne Wright: Moving Image Programme
30 Mar - 19 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 tensions and borderlines between absence and presence, memory and forgetting, and life and death.

     

     

     

     

    30 March–5 April

    I know what it's like, 2012
     

    Songs of Songs, 2019
     

     

    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

     
  • f You Broke Me, 2014 / I Am The Beginning, 2014

    Videos installation

    4 Minutes

     

    Daphne Wright's If You Broke Me and I Am The Beginning each depict one of the artist’s sons, filmed intimately, home-movie style, as they recite riddles to the camera. Each young boy speaks directly and unblinkingly to the viewer, one with a face painted like a tiger and one with a painted beard. The riddles are taken from familiar children’s books, but a heightened tension is created by the monotonous tone of the boys’ voices and their unblinking stares. It is not immediately obvious that the boys are reciting riddles at all. The words begin instead to present possible alternate meanings, drawing attention to the weight that language acquires as one enters adulthood, and the innocence of childhood when language is playfully explored.

     

    This is a special edit of the work for this online format, the work is intended to be viewed as a diptych, installed across a pair of box monitors.

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    Is everyone ok?, 2019

    Digital video
    6 minutes, 54 seconds

     

    Is everyone ok? features an older man, played by Bob Havard, with his face painted like a lion and bearing the mental scars of a career spent in middle management. He repeats team-building clichés, interspersing these with personal responses to queries about his wife’s health. The effect is unsettling as he resides at the interface between work and retirement, usefulness and redundancy.

     

    The video was produced by Mino de Francesca.

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