Grace Harper-Brighouse

Even as a child, Grace Harper Brighouse was always filming her family. Now faced with her father’s death, Grace returns to this personal archive to piece together an unflinching account of his struggle with addiction to opioids and the impact it had on them. Dependence is a bold excavation of the things we hide to protect the ones we love.

Using messages from their family WhatsApp group, "The Family Statement" constructs a conversation between the Sacklers and those afflicted by the opioid crisis, bringing the notoriously private family into dialogue with those living the consequences of the opioid epidemic and offering a commentary on capitalism, corporate accountability, denial and pain.

Even as a child, Grace Harper Brighouse was always filming her family. Now faced with her father’s death, Grace returns to this personal archive to piece together an unflinching account of his struggle with addiction to opioids and the impact it had on them. Dependence is a bold excavation of the things we hide to protect the ones we love.

Using messages from their family WhatsApp group, "The Family Statement" constructs a conversation between the Sacklers and those afflicted by the opioid crisis, bringing the notoriously private family into dialogue with those living the consequences of the opioid epidemic and offering a commentary on capitalism, corporate accountability, denial and pain.