Reflections on life, death and solitude

MAYBE it was because he was alone in Berlin in the middle of a harsh winter, but when artist Michael Lee heard of an army mate who died alone at home in Singapore, that got him thinking about death and solitude.

For his exhibition at the end of the year-long residency at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Lee made a video "obituary" of 45 places where people have died alone, or were…