He Whom You Shall Love Is Absent was a 90 minute improvised performance (with dance, objects and text) by Sarah White, with tyroneisaacstuart. The work explored faith and doubt, belief and disbelief: utilising improvisation as a site for sense-making of the unknown or not-yet-fully-known.

The title of the work is taken from Simone Weil’s text Gravity and Grace, ‘to put our life into that which we cannot touch in any way…It is impossible…. That is what is required.’