Talk to Me peers through a phenomenological lens in order to explore Kelly Bryan’s inner world. Personal narratives, however, are never truly one’s own. To speak of ourselves is to speak of others. Here, Bryan questions themes in relation to the traditional family structure and a mother-daughter relationship.

During a particularly stressful time in her life, Bryan’s used the meditative attributes of running to cope with a family separation. In the making of this body of work, she re-visited and photographed these running routes located around the homes her mother, father and herself now, separately, occupy in the hope of finding her place within these locations. Positioned alongside are photographers of her mother’s home -captured in her absence- to assist Bryan’s understanding of her mother’s new lesbian relationship.

Sequenced within a photobook, these images work alongside diary entries made during a flux in Bryan’s mental well-being. In addition, large-scale prints depicting an abstracted essence of a photograph of her mother, and small framed images invite readers to travel through the multifaceted display and piece together her intangible inner world.

︎   ︎