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There is a past that no longer exists other than in finite images, affective flashbacks and fallible memories. Yet, the imperative of self-narrativisation demands these ambiguous entities to assemble into a coherent whole. Like a puzzle of mis-matched, missing and mutable pieces, the self aches in the face of a demand to be flattened. Melina Brass unravels of searching and not finding in three chapters that, mirroring the paradoxical mechanisms of the mind, are simultaneously parallel and chronological.

The first chapter is called Faith, where the video footage from the artist’s family archive embodies the tension between the etherial pathos of a childhood left behind and the heavy burden of its disentanglement from the Catholic doctrine in the name of self-knowledge.

The second chapter is Excess, where the pendulum swinging between intoxication and guilt is suspended above an abandoned festivity scene that, being cleaned up, is pierced by the melancholic lyrics of show me what I’m looking for sung by Brass.

The third chapter – Surrender – explores the pull towards a nostalgia that, albeit contrary to ones conscious political and ethical convictions, offers a timeless space of tranquility. The three chapters overlap across themes of, among others, time, affect, ideology, sanctity, womanhood and desire. Of searching and not finding guides the spectator along these threads in a non-linear manner to illuminate their entangled yet dynamic condition.

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