christopher steadman


Home
I am writing this with my left hand although I am strongly right-handed
I am writing this with my left hand although I am strongly right-handed
4 screen synched video installation, looped, colour, sound
10:30 mins

With the four channel video installation, 'I am writing this with my left hand although I am strongly right-handed’; Steadman continues to work with issues around loss, memory, and abstraction. The source material was filmed in an abandoned psychiatric ward that was built in the 1800's in former East Germany, and follows the trace of footsteps – or is followed by them. An intense study of the evocations and resonances of the site, the work explores ongoing interests around a sense of displacement - be it in a domestic space, a social situation, an urban landscape or an institutional setting. The soundtrack (composed by the artist himself) further aids these readings - alternating as it does between stretches of silence and periods of eerie noise and spoken word.