Dear Friend, I Can No Longer Hear Your Voice, solo exhibition at the Sir John Soane Museum London

Dear Friend.. is a short film that accurately reconstructs a lost space – the bedchamber of Sir John Soane’s wife Eliza who died suddenly and tragically in 1815. John Soane – Georgian England’s leading architect – never got over her death, preserving her bedchamber for 19 years, and later creating private allusions to Eliza throughout the museum. A haunting soundtrack uses Soane’s own memoir of his grief at Eliza’s death to create a meditation on love and loss.
Through a combination of photogrammetry, CGI animation, sound, voice, and song, the film is an imagined recreation of Eliza’s bedchamber, and a reclamation of Eliza’s presence.

Alongside the exhibition, a series of events will discuss related themes of memory, memorialisation, and bereavement – how we deal with dying and remember our dead, as well as contemporary artists relationship to historical characters.
The recreation of Eliza’s room is based on photogrammetry of objects from the Museum’s collection by John Griffin of Arc Minute Ltd, with digital animation by Edmund Brown. The film will have a choral soundtrack by composer Verity Standen, with lyrics by Anne-Marie, drawn from the diaries and letters of John Soane and close family friends.

Dear friend…is produced by Anne-Marie Creamer and Gary Thomas at Animate Projects.

The film’s development and production, and the public programme, are supported using public funding from the National Lottery by Arts Council England. It is also supported by Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.
Images: production tests for Dear Friend..

Solo exhibition by Anne Marie Creamer at Sir John Soane's Museum, London.

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