Shame in three parts at the Freud Museum

My engagement with shame began in 2000 as an ongoing series of small ‘shame’ paintings and installations of found objects, all of which I expanded in my multimedia exhibition Three Essays on Shame (2005). Curated by Jennifer Law, the exhibition took the form of an intervention in the Freud Museum in London. The site itself presented a special challenge in materializing shame. This was not only because of the symbolic weight and myriad associations of Sigmund Freud's house, its contents and location, but because shame is relatively invisible in his writings.