Sue Healey and Laurence Pike’s AFTERWORLD is overwhelmingly the world of the diaphanous, translucent and mysterious. Lightly tethered to the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, it is an abstract meditation on the shadowy place between life and death.

AFTERWORLD. Photo © Gregory Lorenzutti

Death, Shakespeare tells us in Hamlet, is “the undiscovere’d country from whose bourn no traveller returns”. It’s also the only country to which every living thing, without exception, will journey. A border is irrevocably passed. An irreversible transition takes place.

For one of the AFTERWORLD artists that border has already been crossed. Eileen Kramer had hoped to be a physical as well as digital presence in Healey’s dance. Her death in November, shortly after her 110th birthday, makes AFTERWORLD especially poignant.

Kramer first appears on video at the centre point of the work. She looks radiant. Kramer’s head is draped in a gauzy veil and her delicate hands explore the world around her. Surrounded by nature, she looks part of it, standing erect and free.

Kramer was videoed again a few months later, now a more fragile figure (Healey is video designer, Richard Corfield the videographer). The hands are still...