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Folds of a Separation — Studio Oleomingus

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Folds of a Separation is a short rumination on the withdrawal of bodies from public spaces and the cost of protesting a draconian state. Played across a collection of rooftop-bound labyrinths, it seeks to examine the grievous harm of a state which is keen to contain its population in boundaries entirely of its own choosing. There are no advertisements on the walls of a prison cell. No exhortations for a study-abroad course, or proclamations about the efficacy of detergent-powder; No screen printed fliers for a circus or a family-planning clinic. There are no bawdy film posters here or thrift store deals, no boarding house rates or quick-loan schemes, no handbills for Chinese food and homeopathy clinics, there are no bulletins and no political banners. The walls of a jail are not plastered with the promises of the living because there is no vantage to see them from. There is no landscape here that can place the clamor of existence into perspective and no distance from which you

Folds of a Separation - Studio Oleomingus Folds of a Separation View fullsize Folds of a Separation. - project Somewhere. Folds of a Separation is a short rumination on the withdrawal of bodies from public spaces and the cost of protesting a draconian state. Played across a collection of rooftop-bound labyrinths, it seeks to examine the grievous harm of a state which is keen to contain its population in boundaries entirely of its own choosing. There are no advertisements on the walls of a prison cell. No exhortations for a study-abroad course, or proclamations about the efficacy of detergent-p

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