Cheryl Schurgers

Visual artist building a personal archive through performative photography

Selected works from an expanding series

CS 2014 NEXT OF KIN / NO. 19

NEXT OF KIN (2014) is a photography installation created during a period of tension at my parental home.

The series features intimate portraits of my mother, my sister, and myself, along with detailed studies of a plaster cast of my own body.

Through a delicate interplay of presence and absence, NEXT OF KIN explores the fluid nature of identity within the intimate and often charged space of the family.

The work reflects on how familial roles shift over time, especially under the weight of both personal and collective transformation

No. 19 from the NEXT OF KIN installation, 2014.