LABEL: 2022.260 TAWALE
By Ruth McDougall
‘sis’ April 2024
Constantly changing records the process of Tawale, working with family, tending the grave of her paternal uncle. Across much of the Pacific, one year after an individual has passed, a second ceremony marks the end of the formal mourning process. Grave sites are cleaned and headstones and other grave decorations installed. Each year thereafter the site is again tended, with weeds cleared away and fresh fabric installed. Not unlike a wake, the recording of this simple tribute situates us in the space of family, amongst the sharing of stories and feeling that marks us all as human. Constantly changing challenges the spectacle of disaster imagery we are often shown in relation to ‘black’ deaths; Tawale places a very pointed insistence on revealing and remembering — a more intimate practice of care, and of keeping watch with the dead.
Connected objects
Constantly Changing 2018
- TAWALE, Salote - Creator