The Struggle is a trilogy of three video works by Rachel Garfield commissioned by Beaconsfield and developed with a range of partners to explore the impact of familial interactions on the formation of subjectivity.

The three films, The Straggle (2012), Opening Up (2015) and A Glimpse (2019) are exhibited together for the first time and explore generational, familial, ideological political and social shifts between the mid to late 20th century and the early 21st century, as a negotiated and lived experience. The springboard for each of the films are interviews conducted with people whose parents were either political activists, military personnel, or practising Catholics respectively.

10 November – 18 December 2021; Wednesday to Saturday, 12noon-5pm

Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, 22 Newport Street, London, SE11 6AY