Jen Bervin

The video projection Faire et défaire c’est travailler (2021) by Jen Bervin with an original score by Catherine McRae, depicts the hands of three generations of family members writing, translating, erasing, and rewriting this applicable French expression, spanning small hands new to lettering, to aging hands finding the act of writing increasingly difficult.

Also translated as “doing and undoing, it’s work”, this expression reflects quotidian cycles of care as well as the ongoing need for transformative learning and unlearning.