Renee van der Grijn

A woman stands at the edge of a pier. She wilfully jumps. Slowly she falls through water where time catches her breath. What are the memories between the transitional period of jumping and hitting the water when life becomes momentarily suspended. Alive not dead. What memories would be placed to validate existence. Memories to record. Read or perceived? Fact or fiction?

Following a period of rehabilitation, Elisa returns to her ancestral stately home, Stradbally, where she is haunted by acute anxiety, mental illness, and struggles with addiction. Despite the tender ministrations of Mary, the devoted housekeeper, she finds herself unravelling as reality and imagination blur and the paintings in her…