Deconstructing the actor’s process in rehearsal… deconstructing the character as the film is deconstructed... a transition from the inside to the outside, unraveling, in a spiral, the circumstances that hold both actor and character in their separate places, while asking them to be one.
"A video work that stands between conceptual art and documentary. My grandmother tells the story of my father’s death, 25 years ago, while my hands become the lens that holds my mother’s life today." - Juana Awad
Using as a starting point Barthes’ notion of the Punctum, this installation investigates the relationship between the body-live, the body-object (as cinematographic body) and the lack of body.
