Family Tree 1_1
Family Tree 1_Marcella
Family Tree 1_Vianney
Family Tree 1_24
Family Tree 1_25
Family Tree 1_26
Family Tree 1_27
Family Tree 1_23
Family Tree 1_Installation
Family Tree 1: Daphrose's Family
This is Daphrose’s family. It is a work consisting of 37 panels: portraits of those who survived the Genocide while the black images represent those family members who were slain. Some yet to be baptised.
How do you begin to describe losing your family? How can you describe this to an audience that cannot really imagine the extent of that loss? Daphrose’s daughter Marcella told us about her family: a family of thirty-seven people across three generations. Only four survived the Genocide. But these are just numbers - numb expressions of loss.
We meticulously copied down everything that Marcella could remember. Her brothers’ and sisters’ details, the names of the children, the hint of those yet to be baptised. At times she couldn’t remember their names and things she did remember were confused. Traumatic memory ‘they’ call it.
To ask her to recall it in detail was a burden on her but one she shared with us so that others might know her family once existed.
How do you begin to describe losing your family? How can you describe this to an audience that cannot really imagine the extent of that loss? Daphrose’s daughter Marcella told us about her family: a family of thirty-seven people across three generations. Only four survived the Genocide. But these are just numbers - numb expressions of loss.
We meticulously copied down everything that Marcella could remember. Her brothers’ and sisters’ details, the names of the children, the hint of those yet to be baptised. At times she couldn’t remember their names and things she did remember were confused. Traumatic memory ‘they’ call it.
To ask her to recall it in detail was a burden on her but one she shared with us so that others might know her family once existed.
Comments 0
Say something