Lighted rooms inside your head is an exhibition resulting from a residency by artist Idit Nathan at the Department of Medicine for the Elderly (DME), Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
For several months, Idit sat in at group sessions of daily activities run for the elderly patients in the Department. Idit also had numerous private conversations with patients and asked them about things they remembered, missed or did not remember. For example she asked patients about songs, smells, toys and jokes.
The patients' responses to these questions, and subsequent conversations with the artist, fed the work and Idit’s understanding of what it is to be an elderly patient in hospital. Idit encouraged some of the patients to assist her in the making of the art works, and received additional help from some of Cambridgeshire’s elderly community, who volunteered their help and expertise.
The works are about the past and memories of it, and about listening and seeing. It is about making unusual combinations and wondering what it is like to be old today. We hope it will raise some questions and smiles. |
Four knitted dolls, four white t-shirts, wooden shelf. Knitting by Vera Linsey, aged 82.
