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Subhedar’s video acts, act as mnemonics for her life stories, real and imagined. Yet, like all mnemonics, the female images do not produce the same tales with every telling.
The title of the work 'And I have no sons to float in the space between' is the last line of the iconic poem "The Idea of Ancestry," by famous African American poet Etheridge Knight. The poem’s imagery and especially the awareness of the vastness of space "the violent space" is crucial to this video work. The central fact of the video work is enclosure, confinement.
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