The Handled & The Laboured

The Handled & The Laboured (Part I) Work-in-progress studio images.

The Handled & The Laboured is a work in two parts, comprised of a wall-mounted photo print, and a plinth-mounted photographic installation. In the installation, images of the hands of two women rest on the surfaces and edges of a table; spilling out of the containment of the box they are placed in. The women — both members of the same working-class family — sit at the same table, are separated by a generation, and racialised differently in the world. Each of the bodies that are present in this work both handle and labour; are both handled and laboured.