Amy Cook

Shadow Play explores works of art that enable us to tell and retell our own story of loss and grief, to dance with what is missing. Dawoud Bey’s “Birmingham Project,” Itaru Sasaki’s Wind Phone, and various public memorials, for example, stage or render present loss for the purposes of metabolization and transformation. The project is punctured throughout by the artefacts of Cook's own loss: voicemail messages to the dead and the dying.