It has to be this way

A large scale filmic/theatrical installation made of cardboard and wood enclosing two circular screens with projection and surround sound. The work is 24 minutes duration. It also includes a monitor work with a black and white documentary styled film with headphones 12 minutes, a large blue cardboard 3D star and a novella. Dimensions: Variable, dependent on room size.
Minimum dimensions are:
Platform size: w.7930mm x l. 8345mm h.500mm;
Structure w. 6660mm x h. (approx) 4257mm.

Lindsay Seers’s refuses the distinction between fact and fiction in subtle and sophisticated ways. It brings to light the fictional constructions on which personal memory and identity are built. In her novel It Has To Be This Way¹˙⁵ (2010), the protagonist suffers from amnesia after an accident. She uses old personal photographs as if they were Tarot cards in an attempt to recover her memory and call back her lost identity. These images form the narrative structure of the film, the novel, and the installation. Visitors can pick up a free copy of the book, which the artist expects to be read afterward, out of the exhibition space. The artist plays with the entanglement, in the reader’s mind, of the text that the viewer is reading and her memories of the installation that she previously visited.