WE WERE HARDLY MORE THAN CHILDREN (2019)
A woman's paintings reveal the traces of a traumatic abortion she no longer remembers, in a poetic, layered video work about memory and the body.
A haunting video-art meditation on buried trauma from veteran artist Cecelia Condit.
“We Were Hardly More Than Children” is an epic tale of a friend’s traumatic abortion; a deep hurt that she doesn’t remember, but are poignantly visible in her paintings.
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