Asrafun Nahar Ruhin
Keywords: Nurturing, Re-construction of care, Hangout
Lingering on Either Side of a Salty Bunker
Medium: Performative installation (salt, iron, clay, ceramic, sound, Light, video)
Hangout or dwell,
In an unknown terrain.
It's chosen or re-invited,
Complexity.
A facilitated stance,
Staying in the maze.
Yet, a wind of ease.
Stay with it.
Stay with it.
Salty bunker: inside, outside,
Two passages open.
One holds void,
The other listens.
Who listens to whom?
The question remains.
Perhaps,
Stay there.
With the fragments...
An abandoned patio and a long-sealed bunker will open their tales. After a year, the salted bunker will breathe again. Its salt stain is nothing but the sign of the lack of wind or exhausted soil. Salty, rusty aerial roots will be free from the water glass and be planted in the efflorescence verse to hang out. The patio will gently share its wind with the bunker’s salty skin. Ruhin’s substance alchemy will gradually lose its dichotomy inside the salty bunker. These motions might stir a new alchemy inside the salty bodies. They will open the wound or the stain of its exhaustion for a short time. Suffocation will dissolve slowly for a while.
The bunker will close again, but the stains will remain. Salty, rusty sediments will quietly gather, and new stories will be stored. Eventually, someone will arrive again, becoming the breeze once more, to stir this terrain.
