Review - Dear Rikard

  • Derek Brazell
My review of Dear Rikard by Lene Ask.

Families relationships are complex, and the emotional attachments that exist between members can be smooth or strained – or both. Physical and emotional distances play a significant part in Lene Ask’s exploration of separation and restrained communication.

Depicting this with great subtlety, Ask's images brings depth to the painfully formal letters sent between a father and son across the world in the late nineteenth century over a ten year period.

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