Weltschmerz

A collaborative project with Pakistani artist Shireen Ikmullah Khan, Weltschmerz plays with language, aesthetics, narrative, and body. Through narrative and aesthetics, it seeks to express empathy through melancholy. Reciting in Spanish a narrative about feeling disappointed with the social, political, and legal systems of her home country, Suberville eventually mentions the religion and country of which she is referring, Islam and Pakistan. They are contexts in which Spanish is not usually used and is meant to disarm assumptions made by the viewer about the speaker's background. At the end, the voice of Shireen begins. Her face is then used to represent the actual body of which the narrative belongs to creating a connection between narrative, body, and place.