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In the exhibition 'Death Becomes Her', Catherine Bell presents a series of sculptures and photographs, continuing her exploration of the grief-based rituals that maintain ties between the living and the dead.
Informing Bell’s investigation is Physician and author Sir Thomas Browne’s writing on archaic death practices and how associations are formed between the dead and their material culture. In the text Urn Burial (1658), he discusses how artefacts, such as interred burial urns, operate as spatio-temporal vessels, that unite the living with their ancient forebears.
The hand-carved …