“Are you lonesome tonight?” is an installation piece by Esme Valk. I thought the knitted TV covers were pretty quarky and interesting, but the work actually had quite a dark story behind it.
“I made this triptych after reading a short item in the newspaper. It described a letter-box filled with unread letters and junk mail. None of the neighbours knew the man who lived in that flat, he hardly came outside and always had his blinds closed. When the authorities broke in they found the man’s decomposed body in a chair. Open on his lap a TV guide showed that he had died over a year ago.”