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a living space

solo show at Arcadia Gallery

Funded and supported by Coventry Artspace and Outside In (GB)

window installation materials: flour, kidney beans, mixed of Colombo spices, bin bags, canal fished rusting elements, a mirror, jars of menstrual blood with water, defrosting collected dust from n:u’s living space, shea butter, aloe vera, decomposing bag of fruits (mango, scotch bonnets, avocado), natural rubber nipples.

installation inside gallery: white wall transformed with colour black by visitors; curated library; usable braided with black synthetic hair swing.

Credit Mandip Singh Seehra 1756123077 n:u (melissandre varin)

dirty nails (les ongles noirs)

extraction of knowledge (2021)

by n:u (melissandre varin) and Sym Stellium

digital video

12min 28sec

filmed and edited by Rachel Bunce

audio description & captioning by Seán Elder

Two people in motion, using Palestinian olive oil and soil - oscillating between care and violence amidst a rapidly transforming urban landscape.

Commissioned by: Byuka aka Fortune Tailed Beast & Giulia Casalini for Burned House Horizons

Image credit: Eda Sancakdar Onikinci, embrace,…

embrace

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