Double Sigh is a video in which my mother reenacts a moment from my adolescence. In confronting the viewer directly, my mother's anger, frustration and sadness are imposed on the audience.
– Julia Hechtman
This title is also available on Suitable Video, Volume 1.
Julia Hechtman is a visual artist who makes works dealing with issues of agency and control, absence and presence, life and death, and real-time experience in her multi-faceted studio practice. The natural world features prominently in her works, which has allowed her to travel extensively, and to contemplate the familiar in new ways.