Five Morsels of Letting Go

Five Morsels of Letting Go is a performance that maps the transition of a being from one state to another, from breathing a life to nurturing another body in the form of food. 

Richi’s practice oscillates between the private and the public, both contextually and physically. Between monologue and dialogue, between absorbing and understanding a space and reiterating the meaning of a space, between acts and conversation.

Illustrating the above, her recent visits to fish markets have generated observations and thoughts of consumption and hierarchy while simultaneously pushing her to see ‘the market’ as a place beyond its peripheries and established meaning. For her,  the market has presented itself as a large burial ground or perhaps a cemetery with dead bodies and open mouths and seemingly incomplete conversations. The place has become a representation of an ocean inside a concrete space or rather inside a packet. 

She is interested in the slow acts of transformation that take and mutate these beings from one form to another. Fish becomes fillet. She accounts the emotional and commercial value that gets attached to a being at various stages of becoming and understanding and where the agency of life diminishes. She describes Five Morsels Of Letting Go as a soliloquy overheard by Nahla and Chef Nadeem, that will engage within the ritual of mutation and letting go alternatively.