Reclaiming death

Reclaiming death

anka cogen

Socio-Political Context  2022-2023

Death belongs to life and life belongs to death. Death is hardly shared within our communities, it is almost kept as a secret, as if it is not there. My intervention comes in the form of two films that urges a sense of awareness by making my own coffin and through encountering the communities in the retirement homes.

Death belongs to life and life belongs to death. Death is hardly shared within our communities, it is almost kept as a secret, as if it is not there. My intervention comes in the form of two films that urges a sense of awareness by making my own coffin and through encountering the communities in the retirement homes.