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"Reading a Room" is a record of an open-ended visual synopsis of the processes of creating memories that might move us away towards something hidden and much more profound from engagements focused exclusively on listening through the body. The work has directed me to conceptualize the process through the direct experience of reiteration to reveal a mental process.

The seriality of the work alludes to the fact that our bodies have unconsciously assimilated a vast library of unseen but familiar sounds and sensations. The room became a theatre, a site of the ritual to trigger shunning moments our conscious mind works hard to repress.

This new memory, in its nature, especially in that studio space, helped to respond to the distinct aspects of auditory memory. It has formed a kind of "waiting" within the body. The remnants of the past grew even heavier due to this self-created weight.

This room started with the idea of creating a new memory of entanglement. It grew into collaborative research that has developed cognitive ability towards the concepts of resonance, reverberation, and the aesthetics of entanglement. 

The work comprises videos and plaster castings of memories. Each video is about an individual seated with a camera on their back, facing a white paper wall. Their heads are covered with plaster, which rests on their shoulders and heads.

This work is not about the finished artwork but rather the transitional, reflective, and inexhaustible processes of the matter (hair) it contains. It carries a distinctive sculptural language where the output is not a pure transmission of a source but a distance it has traveled and the things it has encountered along the way.