I Hate
2007
Installation
Materials:
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. BK7696_M447).
Imogen Stidworthy originally created the installation I Hate for Documenta 12. The subject of the work is the photographer Edward Woodman, who lost his ability of speech in an accident, and his long struggle to rediscover his fragile voice. Practising words is part and parcel of his photography, which also changed after the accident. As a professional photographer, between 1970 and 2001 he documented installations, exhibitions of contemporary art and architecture models. Since the accident he has used the camera to record social change, and the whole process of change around him. A series of photographs relates to the King's Cross area where the new Eurostar terminus is located.