Family of None

Pip Greenaway received a grant to develop new work. Family of None is an experimental multichannel video installation, approximately ten minutes long with a continuous soundscape, exploring the construction, fiction, and absence of family. For this project, Pip assembles her fictional family from seven individuals who are not actually related to her but are willing to temporarily inhabit those roles. She wrote a script imagining what her utopian family might look like. Through filmed audition rounds, she casts based on presence and physical resemblance, but above all on what each candidate brings to the role: their own family histories, expectations, and scars inevitably seep into their performance. The script clashes with reality as their personal histories merge with the assigned roles.

Pip works with video, installation, and performance, investigating how identity is staged in everyday life. She graduated with distinction in 2025 from the Royal Academy of Art. With a background in art history, theater, and visual storytelling, her work focuses on the performative and illusory aspects of daily existence: how people move on and off stage, shifting between roles, expectations, and forms of self-presentation. From this perspective, she creates immersive multichannel video installations that combine sound and three-dimensional elements. She writes and directs each piece herself, constructing and filming environments that question how desire and collective narratives are constructed, and how commercial and social structures sustain these narratives.