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Super8 colour / stereo / 2:23 mins
Exercises is a series of repeated gestures recorded on Super8mm film. The subject returns to a movement practice after many years, guiding her limbs through repeated extensions and retractions. These are exercises, designed to train the muscles, yet they are also the body acting on / through memory. As such, the work explores how repeated gesture can act as a vocabulary of embodied memories.