If they believed they were invited, it was impossible to prevent them from going there.*
There was a rumor, people locked up the door tightly. Waking up in the middle of the night, the woman smeared her entire body with a salve. She grabbed a broom and passed through a keyhole or jumped into the dirty fireplace. In the “world turned upside-down”, women dance counterclockwise.** They don’t get burned till the end. It's a very old story.
〈A Night Gathering> consists of two sequences, an exhibition and a performance.
〈Mirror Writing> re-summons the witches that capitalism had to create and burn in order to make itself the rule of the world. Mirror writing, witchcraft, and unpredictable flight-once thought to be the work of the devil-are manifested through women. Vicious witchcraft resembles to the mundane chores to be done endlessly. The movements of the forbidden banquet are indistinguishable from simple stretching, and everything that was once comfortable becomes ominous. When the cheerful bell sound of the LG washing machine wakes us up, the woman’s feet have been dirty. As if she had been wandering far away.
<The (three) Gossip> problematizes the female body that has become a rumor and gossip. 'Gossip' originally referred to a close (female) friend who accompanied a woman in the pain of child birth. She was neither midwife nor kin, but walked the line between life and death beside her friend. When the most private and intimate becomes the most sharable, troubled body walks side by side with lost body. A body inherited from a mother’s mother crosses a troubled body. Unusual, wily bodies come together for the unauthorized banquet. Our nights are tender.
*Emile Grillot De Givry ⌜Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy⌟
**Silvia Federici ⌜Caliban and the Witch : Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation⌟