To Place with Care

(2018 & 2023)

Exhibited at Sluice HQ in London as part of the group exhibition Field/s curated by Thom  Bridge. It was further included in "A Woman's Work" two-year European collaborative project organised by Ffotogallery and as a result as part of their publication with the same title, 2021.
https://ffotogallery.org/programme/a-womans-work.
 

To Place with Care explores habitual movement, dependency, and support structures while questioning the gendered histories of care work. The work developed from restaging 1960s instructional photographs and manuals depicting nurses practicing techniques for lifting patients, imagining a weight that is not yet present. These preparatory exercises required repetitive gestures performed in the absence of the patient, creating a choreography of habit and muscle memory.

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By removing these movements from their original context and function, the photographs reveal the ambiguity of rehearsed care: gestures remain, while the body they are intended to support is absent. The work shifts attention towards the supporting rather than the supported body, exploring care as a physical practice shaped by repetition, anticipation, and embodied knowledge.

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In 2023, the project developed through a series of photographs made with two former nurses, who were invited to recall and reenact gestures and postures from their professional practice. Through a process of bodily remembering, they reactivated movements once performed in relation to patients, revealing how experiences of care remain inscribed in the body over time.