Book launch: In the Shadow Of Things by Léonie Hampton
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 18.30 - 22.30pm @ 22
Micawber Street, London, N1 7TS
About the book: For over a decade, Léonie's mother Bron found
it impossible to empty the packing boxes which had filled her new home since
the collapse of her first marriage. The boxes, along with stuffed plastic bags
and accumulated artefacts from her former life, were a constant, physical reminder
to her family of Bron's long-running battle with OCD and depression. In 2007, a
deal was struck: Léonie would help Bron empty the house on the condition that
she be allowed to document that process. For the book launch event, Léonie and
her mother Bron will transform an abandoned warehouse creating an installation
of objects that they found and sorted during the making of the book. There will
also be a screening of a slideshow of the work, originally made for Foam Museum
Amsterdam.
