In time passing and present, Avril stages fragments and visions from her decade long art and performance practice. Mother is Mary, Mary; Chutney and The Father’s shoes are too big. The child is to be set straight in his path.

The trousseau is unpacked. Artefacts and lived experiences from her childhood are underpinnings of a layered human experience accessorized with status, positions, standards and the pursuit of perfection.

In the stillness of domesticity, the mundane and the mirror, is violence lurking in a silk-laced camisole. Nothing about this is delicate.

Darling,

Did I tell you that I took a trip to Rajasthan? I danced with Meera Didi, who taught me to balance a pot of fire on my head. I danced and only danced.

I still miss dad. My first dances were with him when he would get on his knees so we could waltz together. I keep his shoes polished.

All is good at home otherwise. I've caught the bugs and fixed the leaks. It's all in place now, darling.

I've cut my hair short and these days I love to sew.

Will I see you on the 8th? My sister will be there too. I will make you dal and we can eat together.

I can't wait.

Love,

Jaan

Avril Stormy Unger is a performance and live artist with a multi sensory approach and affinity toward experience based pieces. In queerness, gender, sexuality, abuse, religious oppression and pattern based behaviours intertwined with the cultural context she navigates, she is locating the language for her work. Carework, co-creation and community are crucial to her artistic practice. Her working process is impulsive, experimental, unbound by discipline and manifests through a multidisciplinary approach. ‘Other Delicates’ is her debut solo show in Goa.