NOTTINGHAM, UK.- Future Factory, based within Nottingham Trent University, is delighted to present Kindertotenlieder by critically acclaimed visual artist Mariele Neudecker. The exhibition which takes place in The Bonington Gallery runs from 25 September until 28 October. The exhibition has been commissioned and produced by Picture This in Bristol and Opera North Projects, in partnership with Impressions Gallery, Bradford and Future Factory at Nottingham Trent University.

Neudecker’s exhibition incorporates a five-part moving image installation created in response to Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children). Fusing contemporary visual art with classical music and literature, Neudecker’s Kindertotenlieder explores the very difficult and emotive universal themes of grief, loss and guilt by drawing together verse, music, song and moving image. Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder took its basis from the 19th century German poet Friedrich Rückert’s 400 verses of the same name. Mahler explained: “I placed myself in the situation that a child of mine had died.” Years later he added: “After I had really lost my daughter, I could not have written these songs.”