Pressing
Stephanie Barber, 2025, US, digital, English spoken, 4'
a woman washes her hair in the kitchen sink while telling
her friend about a memory of sitting in a bathtub and
watching her aunt get ready to go out.
a narrative fragment,
a very short story, a performance and exercise in the prosaic as mythologized
through memory.
concision and the infinite that is always entwined with
remembering and forgetting.
the pressing of pubic hair against nylon
the pressing of fingers on fruit
the pressing of an image of
womanhood
sexuality
pleasure on the young psyche of the character in the film.
the pressing of light on photosensitive chemicals.
minerals i’ve exposed.
light struck is a phrase i like to think about. the bearable
violence.
— Stephanie Barber
