Filling the gallery with a persistent sound switching from the familiar to the unfamiliar, from the comprehensible to the meaningless, this installation produced an uncanny sense of fighting power forces. Language as carrier of history reveals the deepest conflicts between a dominant and a dying culture, the inner dialogue of a single man as epitome of a wider cultural and social condition.

In this installation Illingworth has explored how suppression of a language by a dominant culture can affect ones’ sense of self and create a sense of dislocation – geographical, cultural, political.