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"Lost for Words" consists of portraits of
people with images of their deceased loved ones projected onto
them. Alongside the pictures, they talk about their experiences
of grief and loss in videoed interviews.
"The two things that happen to everybody is you're born and you
die. We all talk about birth like it's going out of fashion.
None of us talk about death," Rankin - full name John Rankin
Waddell - told Reuters in October while working on the show in
his north London studio.
Some of the subjects are well known, including the mother and
brother of Stephen Lawrence, a Black London teenager who was
murdered in 1993 in an unprovoked racist attack.
Others were chosen for the stories they had to share, including
London mother-of-four Ouida Wickramaratne, who lost her
17-year-old son Daniel to COVID-19 in April.
She posed in front of a photo showing Daniel, who had cerebral
palsy, on holiday in Spain last year in the sea in a floating
chair.
She broke down when she first saw the picture projected on the
wall. The photo shoot showed how far she had come since then,
she told Reuters.
"I'm getting there, because I wouldn't have been able to even do
this in the first few months. It's six months now. I'm getting
there."
The exhibition, which is meant to encourage people to get over
the taboo of death and talk about it, can been seen at https://lostforwords.royallondon.com.
(Writing by Andrew Heavens; editing by John Stonestreet)
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