The exhibition retells a six-hour performance which took place in 2015, when Hanna Wildow invited artists to embody historical or contemporary female figures. Artists individually processed layered stories generated by their characters which were then articulated, embodied and documented throughout the evening; they searched for interstices in the shared stories, the layered documents, the words researched, reimagined or culled from the imagination. The set task was clear: history itself has eradicated our stories, we must begin to write them ourselves.
The visitor to The Family Dinner is invited into a psychic and spatial continuation: a fragmented dialogue that replays the dialogues of the participants and their characters. Narratives unfold, tales repeatedly inquiring the very becoming of narrations: What happens to history when a true story does not exist? When the book has neither beginning nor an end? When deception takes and gives an other’s voice?
The project is presented in collaboration with PWR, Moa Sjöstedt, Imri Sandström, Sara Teleman, Ellen Nyman, Moa Franzén, Anna-Karin Linder Krauklis, Katarina Bonnevier, Thérèse Kristiansson, Francine Agbodjalou, Karin Drake and Carolina Johansson Oviedo.
