Play in Camera presents the spectator with repeated and repetitive video images of three protagonists on three separate screens. There is no soundtrack but English subtitles appear under the video portraits. The texts are taken from two plays, alternately: 'In Camera' by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944 and 'Play' by Samuel Beckett, 1962-63. On the fourth screen the viewer is seen captured live, by surveillance camera. The video installation is about reflection and self-reflection. In both the cited pieces the characters are trapped in an after-life struggle coming to terms with themselves. Their lives have all ended badly because of selfish behaviour. In a halfway house between life and death, three characters in two different plays, are condemned for eternity, to relive the most troubled moments of their personal relationships.

Tanya Ury