Catherine Bertola, Residual Hauntings, 2011

‘Residual Hauntings’ is a triptych of photographs originally commissioned for The Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth UK of the artist performing domestic rituals and actions by the Brontë sisters as described in written records held at the museum. The actions: pacing around the table of the Dining Room, running up and down the stairs, and sweeping the kitchen floor become ghostly vignettes that reanimate the spaces of the Parsonage.Bertola’s interest in the Brontë Parsonage Museum centres on the contradictions between past and present that lie at the heart of the museum. Bertola sees the house as a 'period set', a reconstruction of the past onto which we project our own thoughts and feelings. ‘Residual Hauntings’ attempts to breathe life back into the space and reinstate a sense of the creativity that once filled the air of the house.

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