That unquestionable bloom

The solo exhibition That unquestionable bloom began with a series of images collected from various screens, true crime documentaries, and rolls of photographic film which depicted or suggested violent acts or their aftermath. From this collection of images, an installation of works was produced, which exploited tensions between clarity and slippage, violence and mundanity, tragedy and muteness.

The work was driven by an attention to gender and the spectre of female peril within landscapes of rural beauty. The exhibition takes a line from Tishani Doshi’s poem “Everybody Loves a Dead Girl” (Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods, 2018) as its title.

Like the figures hidden within the images throughout the exhibition, the text that forms part of the piece The shortest tragedy ever told suggests a narrative experienced which will never fully reveal itself.