MORE CARNAGE FEATURED: TERESA WILSON - “THE DIARY”
Teresa Wilson’s The Diary is quiet, miniature, and devastating. It unfolds inside a small, strange universe: two mummified dolls seated together, their motions gentle, their presence entirely disquieting. In just over a minute, the work rewires the viewer’s sense of intimacy. It replaces sweetness with something denser, older, and closer to the truth.
The animation operates like a memory that doesn’t want to be found. The dolls move with the hesitancy of creatures learning to inhabit their bodies; every gesture feels borrowed from a life they once had, or wish they had, or can no longer claim. The wood beneath them becomes its own archive—echoing the history of hands, grief, rituals, and erasures.
This is why The Diary sits within MORE CARNAGE: It refuses comfort. It refuses to tell a story in a way that absolves us. Instead, it turns the viewer into a witness—someone watching two uncanny figures navigate a fragile relationship in a space where tenderness is always threaded with fear.
Wilson understands that the uncanny is not spectacle; it’s a wound. Her textile figures recall ancient remains, bog bodies, burial wrappings—humans preserved by accident or violence or devotion. Yet here, in this short film, the preserved are animated, revived, made to speak without a voice. Their silence is the carnage.
The work was selected because it dares to murmur instead of scream, revealing that chaos doesn’t always arrive with volume. Sometimes it shows up in the small movements of a body that shouldn’t be alive, and yet is—achingly, impossibly alive.
ABOUT TERESA WILSON
Teresa Wilson is a visual artist known for her uncanny textile sculptures and abject handmade figures. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, Surrealist strategies, and her fascination with mummified remains, she constructs beings that both repel and seduce. Her work shifts the familiar into the unfamiliar, using layered fabric and binding techniques to evoke preservation, decay, and the fragile persistence of life.
WEBSITE: https://www.teresawilson.co.uk/
INSTAGRAM: @tereywilson
