Rituals of restitution
Info de Video
Rituals of restitution, 2023
Wood carved ebony mask, 38 x 26 x 10 cm.
Video 4K 9:06 min. / Sound stereo.
One Thing They Know
Humans become memory paths,
a place for refuge, a place to lay down,
a place to deal with.
Defeated memories do not play
a zero-zone game,
a bottom game, a lower speech, a bedrock trauma,
a departing game of arrivals,
to come and go, back and forth.
My indispensable organs:
my hearth, my liver, my bowels, my breathing lungs.
The historical breakdown of a suffocated voice,
underwater.
Political dispensations,
suffering, anger, indignation, grief.
Terror is deployed,
the body displayed,
rendered physically ill with rage and fear,
disabled by the Crown and its future spectra,
the present of rage, the ghosts of grief.
Names, names, names, names, names… Home has no name,
How to inhabit an unnamed body? An unnamed home,
names, names, names, names, names… Speak up a name.
Shout in the face of impunity, shiver the mercilessness, whisper the violence.
Names, names, names… the horror name.
Those who name,
rule.
Weighted by losses and traumas,
feelings are contained; life has surrendered.
Industrial catastrophes, stolen bodies,
raped trophies, sex-born poison.
Cast aside by attrition,
exhaustion,
Discarded private property
beyond repair,
That is the feeling of not being at home.
Self-love and self-affirmation,
reincarnation, rehabilitation, reconstruction.
How to do so?
Turn around the wound,
what do you see?
Rage,
how do we reach beneath the skin?
Seeing is no longer enough
to articulate suffering,
brain damage and neurosis,
capitalism and schizophrenia:
recycled wounds
for the giving,
for economy.
How to thrust through?
By excavating, opening yourself up, digging into your viscera.
Behind the mask they thrust
the know-how,
the waiting handbook.
Performed by: Mahoalli Nassourou
Photography: Marco Casado
Sound: Alejandro Contreras (Pascual)
Editing: Mauricio Limón