Many and many a day like this, The Stone Space

For her solo exhibition ‘Many and many a day like this’, Helen Barff presents a series of sculptural work that uses textiles and various casting materials to retell everyday memories collected from people in Leytonstone’s charity shops in early 2020. These reflect the many forgotten stories within the fabric of worn donated clothing. Mediated through endless days of lockdown, Helen selected items of clothing to make connections between material weight and reflect the community of memories – the unseen visceral, psychological weight, and what gets lost along the way.