The Ten Murders of Josephine (2017) is the most recent longitudinal project initiated by Rana Hamadeh. The operatic project is structured through several evolving iterations, which over-write and trouble one another, proposing a particular dramaturgy of labor and research processes that commence with the present exhibition at Witte de With. Preceded by a bi-weekly study group inviting an assembly of readers from different fields, the exhibition will be followed by a theatrical production, a publication, and a film. After six years of Alien Encounters (Hamadeh’s previous long-term project), evolving around the genre of legal spectacle, and Hamadeh’s earlier claims regarding “justice as the measure to which one can access theater;” The Ten Murders of Josephine explores the constitutive conditions of testimony vis-à-vis the notion of “testimonial subjecthood.”

Charlie Fox, author of This Young Monster talks to artist Marianna Simnett about her latest project Worst Gift currently showing at Matt’s Gallery, London.