The title for this talk quotes a line from the artist Liliane Lijn’s film Look a Doll! My Mother’s Story(1998 – 2000) currently on show in Gallery 2. The work, which dates from a relatively recent stage in Lijn’s career, has its roots in a limited edition self-published book by the artist, Her Mother’s Voice (1996 – 1998). Following a disturbing dream, Lijn began to interview her mother, who endured persecution and forced migration as a result of the anti-Semitism and violence of Europe in the years leading up to World War II, and whose escape to America brought a painful loss of identity and sense of self. Look a Doll! My Mother’s Story continues the project of generational dialogue through filmed interviews with her mother, who was then experiencing the early stages of dementia, cut with photomontage and archival footage.