A Massive Nothing, 2011
Triptych using 3 TV screens, 2 portrait, 1 landscape
Centre screen, DVD found video footage, audio/visual / montage, 3 mins loop.
Side screens 2 digital slideshows, digital stills, loop (Edition 1/5)

Claire Lawrie’s work A Massive Nothing combines, in a triptych, found video footage from YouTube of 100 women in childbirth alongside still portraits that capture viewer’s reactions to the video. Subjects were unaware of what they were to watch. Claire was interested in recording reactions to the primacy of birth, and in the juxtaposition of moving footage of active childbirth with the still serene portraits of the onlookers, a reworking of the traditional altarpiece.