Project name : Lilian and the Angels

Location: London/UK

Collaboration with Anne Bean

Whilst St Pancras was shrouded in dust-sheets during renovations, we explored the building with a view towards a work using large scale projections.The many statues of women on the façade were in various stages of decrepitude with missing and disfiguring facial features. With twisted echoes of Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray, we decided to photograph these statues alongside women in a local home for the elderly. We asked women of approximately the same age as these sculptures to pose in the same way, ironically remarkably unblemished and preserved compared to the statues. We also used electronic microscope photography of the stone and skin as well as magic lantern imagery from the Museum of Moving Image to complete the series of projected images. The magic lantern images were the only projections that are known to be done when the station was built and the women were babies.