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Until This I Mean This is essentially a collection of ornaments.
Functioning as edges, doodles, sketches, traces of a journey of flight — or perhaps, of landing — five cryptic drawings decorate the main exhibition space, imagined as a lovers bedroom (un’ alcòva in Italian); objects saturated with intimacy, pillows lay ruptured, their filling dispersed indistinguishably from the feathers a wing sheds in flight. Above the bedpost, light comes in through a window layered with film stills extracted from footage of a mouth pronouncing the word ‘Loss’. Mysterious clusters of words at once ornate and block the electrical outlets on the walls.

Mea, Precious Angel: Provocations toward a Modularity of the Abyss, the companion text to the show, is the flight Until This I Mean This refers to. An experiment in falling disguised as an attempt to fly, Mea draws on the notion of the erotic articulated by Audre Lorde in her seminal 1978 speech ‘Uses of the Erotic’ to eventually develop into a psychotic presentation-speech by angel Mea Dow introducing ‘the limic’: a further, undefining feeling of deep erotism. Limic logic, we learn, is a kind of devotion to the lush, rampant space—the limit—flourishing between two whose individuation and identification are suspended. In the narrative, identification and identity are understood in connection to their shared Latin root, idem, meaning 'sameness', standing in contrast to the unbridled diversity of experience. The text weaves together a tapestry of references from academic and analytic writing to poetry and literature, eventually linking the logic of the limit to the notion of ‘the alcove’, thus tracing back objectification to the intimate, (I)ndividual realm of daily life. Mea’s conclusion is unforgiving: that dimension whereby the unknown is casted into nothingness—the abyss, is modular, meaning, essentially a-semantic: it originates within a subjectual intimacy antecedent to and more profound than discoursive categories such as gender, race, sexuality, religion, or economic class.

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Until This I Mean This
solo presentation at Obelus 1, Berlin, DE
11 May — 23 June 2025 

photos by Marjorie Brunet Plaza