Jo Bragg

happier than we have been (2015)

9 min 2 secSingle channel / Digital Video / Colour / Sound

"The beginning segment of the title: happier than we have been references the last sentence of Virginia Woolf’s suicide note to her husband Leonard Woolf, which she left in their home in Sussex, 28 March 1941."

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