Never Too Much, 2023

Corporeality and quantum reality are also thematised in the three video works What’s Love Got to Do with it, Never Too Much, and Please Don’t Cry. All works deal with strong personal emotions and memories of Heaney's own subjective experiences, exploring how trauma and memory have a quantum-like character. In What’s Love Got to Do with it, slime is kneaded and squeezed by manicured fingernails in a deliberately blurred overlay of images. Like squeezing a stress ball, aggression seems to be released here, and at the same time, the work gives the impression that something else (a monster?) is about to emerge. In Never Too Much, slime flows from the mouth, is consumed, and is then expelled, always in flux. Despite the title's assertion, the experience seems to be too much. In Please Don’t Cry, we see a close-up of a made-up eye. Tears are visible, and we become aware that the person, again, Heaney herself, is crying. The work was created in mourning and in memory of her deceased sister, establishing a connection to Heartbreak and Magic, a work by Heaney that also revolves around this loss.