Consider Falling

By Sarah Howe

What might an anxious disorder feel like?

Consider Falling is rooted in research into derealisation (the condition of feeling that reality is unreal) and depersonalisation (a feeling of detachment from oneself, or that oneself is unreal) collectively referred to as DPD. Becoming detached from one’s body may seem a useful means of coping, but in some people it may become a chronic disorder.

Drawing on interviews with service users at King’s College London’s DPD Research Unit, Consider Falling is an immersive environment of mirrors, fragments of interviews, gifs, and repeated gestures of anxiety that, to some extent, embodies the sensation of these conditions.

Unreal UK is a charity which provides support and information on Depersonalisation Derealisation Disorder. Find out more here.

You can read more about dissociative disorders on the NHS website here.

About the contributor(s)

Sarah Howe

Sarah Howe is a UK based artist whose installations situate still and moving image within sculptural space. Her work stands in the crossing between a material and psychological landscape, in a reach to illustrate heightened inner states. Howe is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, London. Recent exhibitions include Rehearsing the Real, Peckham24, London UK (2019) Present Tense, Matéria Gallery, Rome, Italy (2019) Lets go through this again, Portland Works, Sheffield UK (2019) and Consider Falling, Brighton ONCA Gallery, Brighton UK (2018) www.sarahhowe.co.uk