Medina Balešić

she/her

Swedish/Bosnian, 1994

www.tutulitz.com

'Little Paper (2024) is a hyper personal documentary style video essay. Telling about the time a young family travelled, to a destination of which non had previous connections to, for a lifechanging task. It's February 2023 and everything is at stake.
 
Through the multichannel audio-visual installation of Little Paper (2024) visitors become editors as each layer reveals something that adds to the plot. Time becomes nonlinear due to the nature of the installation.
 
The rite of passage is painful yet necessary to employ what awaits on the other side.

CRYSIS

https://vimeo.com/974014453

FLINTA* is an acronym that in English stands for female, lesbian, intersex, non-binary, trans and agender.

Characteristics:
hardness between 6.7 and 7
sharp
yellow, brown, black
a great number around the world
sedimentary rock composed of silica, Si02
rhombohedral
prehistoric
used to cut soft matter

We enter the mind. We encounter feelings and emotions. We discover the stuckness, a loop of repetition. Intrusive thoughts are up close and confronting. Over and over again; how do we solve the problem? Trying different ways. Seeking to manage emotions. After some time of struggle comes discovering that nothing has to be solved.
Ability to let go of this heavy rock - a symbol of taking in others opinions and heavy loads. After letting go of the rock comes the beginning of creating space through movement that is focusing on center - slowly. Liberating through touch and feel - sensitivity.
Because of surrender, this emotion invites to reconnection with self and recognizes what lies deep inside.

Video (8:30)

Performer: Maira Darja

Bea Lamadrid Bayón & Medina Balešić