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my ancestors and i are burning a house - together

By  n:u (melissandre varin) 2025

Image credit: Eda Sancakdar Onikinci, my ancestors and i are burning a house - together, Burned House Horizon, Mimosa House (GB) 2025

Dimensions
1h

duration: 1hour

material: ashes, pine sap, charcoal, water, plastic

Commissioned by Giulia Casalini & Byuka aka Fortune Tailed Beast

Image credit: Eda Sancakdar Onikinci, my ancestors and i are burning a house - together, Burned House Horizon, Mimosa House (GB) 2025

Image credit: Eda Sancakdar Onikinci, my ancestors and i are burning a house - together, Burned House Horizon, Mimosa House (GB) 2025

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

anointment

by n:u (melissandre varin) and Jérémie Priam

Digital Video

duration 08 min 29 second

supported by Oustide In (GB)

Presenting the Caribbean banana trade as a site of desire and displacement, n:u and Jeremie’s audio-visual assemblage spans 4,000 miles. On Martinique (FR), Jeremie’s aunt Lilianne shares her knowledge of growing organic bananas. On the island, toxic pesticides sprayed on banana crops have contaminated the landscape…

Handle with care/ prendre avec soin

performance by Maria Muehombo and n:u

45 min

material: ​soil, bells, sparkling wine, butter cloth, shea butter, salt

soft discomfort, salt & shea butter, transition, fugitive mapping, ​soil, bells, speculative tension​, sparkling wine, butter cloth

The Last Place They Thought Of, Kunsthal Mechelen, curated by Sorana Munsya

image credit: Hans Gaston Op de Beeck

doucement

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