Each of these things is true

In Each of these things is true Alice Briggs has spent time at Cwm Elan, exploring the site with her parents and children, but particularly her father, discussing the history/archaeology/culture of the land and family memories. She is looking at how the same instant can be recalled infinitely subjectively; how the adult (parent) differs from the child, that lives seemingly experienced together can lead to understanding, but also misunderstanding. Working with her father, a piano in the gallery space makes a link with the rooms that she grew up in, family and familiar. This piano is now tired and broken, but the last performance, an improvised track by the artists father accompanies a film. The piano vibrations and strings filter through moss and grasses of the Cambrian mountains, a place once described as a ‘white desert’, devoid of beauty, nature and life – but not for the artist. The great rock is both wild and tamed, a desert and a sanctuary, a point of extraction as well as immersion.