The sea is pretty, the sea serves as a place to drown. How many seconds of loss can dismiss the water’s totality of grace? Can pain even exist in a place so pretty? The water is a thief it cleansed me all away, faceless, 0 pores. The water is a thief, it takes things from me.
Does a graceful robbery count as a catastrophe at all? Does a beautiful robbery count as a bad thing? The thief was pretty, the thief gave me things, the thief took me but gave me a replacement! Missing pieces refilled by distraction, does something lost in the ocean count as something stolen?
Showing Natali Corpe’s accessory and styling designs with Theadoras Sutherland’s video and sculptures, 17 Essex stages a setof loss and regaining. Working with hanging possessions and silhouettes, mirrored with projected video, the space attempts to ask: is the current state symbolizing a phantom or a body in metamorphosis.
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