He Said She Said
Daisy de Villeneuve

Daisy de Villeneuve presents us with a catalogue of poignant, and often hilarious, vignettes where the apparent naivety is often deceptive. Using simple materials, she creates a rich and affecting comedy of manners, an extended discourse on the nature - and more often than not the failure - of communication between friends and lovers. The fragments of dialogue , remembered from conversations, are selected with a deadpan comedian's instinct for the killer detail, the one liner - at first sight little more than repeated prototypes of eyes, nose and mouth, adorned with schematic renderings of haircuts and other fashion accoutrements, nevertheless achieve a spare evocation of personality and mood. De Villeneuve uses selective information in these portraits of friends in such a way that our imagination fill the gaps: we realise that we already know these people; we've lived these situations.