Grain

Grain is a first-person story sewn as an audiovisual narrative. Here, clippings of the work signed by the artist Gabi Etinger, accompanied by the exclusive soundtrack created by the musician Ricardo Vieira, focus on very intimate issues. It turns out that these issues, anchored in a sort of feminine speaker, also echo a discourse which is very present in the gender clashes that are finally taking place in the light of day. By telling her own story using blood ink, so as to speak, Gabi takes the thread and continues the experience lived before by several generations of women, as far as affective memory can reach: mother, grandmother, great-grandmother. Thus, the artist does not speak only of herself, but uses her own body to approach themes such as ancestry. Fluxo_s, Ricardo Vieira’s original composition, accompanies the story narrated by the works of Gabi Etinger, echoing the female subjectivity of a body traversed by time. The binaural track is composed of beats and rip tides, exploring the sensations of the body, and referring to the idea of cycles. They are flashes of sensations. The unconscious searching for the mother’s womb. Beginning and end that spring up and also flow into sea and blood.