Unspoken

Content Warning: Discussion of self-harm, including child self-harm.

An outdoor setting framed by broken furniture and a concrete slab. In the foreground, glass and ceramic dishware fly in from off-screen to shatter on the concrete, piling up as the video plays.

Unspoken explores the nature of self-harm and the strong but often incorrect assumptions about what it looks like and what to do about it. The artist’s emotional discussion of their own experience with self-harm is juxtaposed with a scene of mundane destruction, inviting the viewer to contemplate the divide between the dramatic gestures of popular perception and the everyday reality of living with self-destructive compulsion.

RMR

2020. Video. 9 minutes 47 seconds. Video described by the artist.