Remember before entering

Performance

2022

30 minutes

Clay object (jug), bucket with water, bell, fabric painted with ink and sewn from pieces, continuous surgical suture simple (wrapping).


The story that happened to me in Georgia formed the basis of my thoughts on forgetting.
My aunt Zhuzhuna has 10 cows. One day, one of them - Lamazi (beautiful), pregnant, disappeared. For three days we looked for it. Every evening we got into the car and searched all over Miskheti.
This mystique, formed in the search, revealed for me the wound of all that was lost by me.
My wound of everything that was forgotten.
The bell that Lamaza wore on her neck as a marker of presence and existence did not help her be found.
She forgot the actions she did every day.
She forgot the place where she was from.
Something prevented her from remembering her house, her walls.
She messed up her house. Before entering, she forgot, made a mistake.

The objects among which we live with, which we encounter, are our guides, prompting us to specific actions. These actions, sometimes automated and routine, direct our ideas, reasoning, exist only because of the ability to remember and recall.
Actions depend on objects that have the properties of appearing and disappearing.
It is about the place of memories and their fluctuations between the visible and the invisible.