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embrace

By n:u (melissandre varin) 2025

Dimensions
12min 28sec

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, installation view at Burned House Horizon, Mimosa House (GB) 2025

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re-assembling

extraction of knowledge (2021)

MILK

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