HEXENTEXTE and Now Instant present the book launch of Cindy Rehm's room by the sea with a screening of Marguerite Duras' epistolary study in vision, Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver).

"With Aurélia, I rediscover writing. Aurélia is everywhere, writing from everywhere all at once. After Aurélia Steiner, I can no longer write, I have lost writing. If I don’t talk to this survivor, I will lose writing completely. And, if she’s not there, present all the time, day and night, preventing me from seeing anything other than her, anything else, anything, then nothing happens. I don’t write. I stayed locked up for a month and a half with Aurélia. I’d get up, I’d see Aurélia’s sea, her eyes, I’d see Vancouver, I’d see that the sea was screaming Aurélia’s screams and sleeping Aurélia’s sleep. 

Next to the phenomenal power of Aurélia Steiner, cinema is nothing. Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver) was an impossible film. It was made. The film is admirable because it doesn’t try to remedy its impossibility. It escorts this impossibility, walks alongside it."

- Marguerite Duras

This artist book was inspired by Marguerite Duras', essay Writing, and the obsessive nature of Duras’ polymorphic renderings that move between texts, theatre, and film. In response, Rehm's series of drawings imagine the collage as a film still, a liminal durational sliver captured within a single frame. 

HEXENTEXTE is a Los Angeles-based feminist project dedicated to the research, presentation, and publication of works at the intersection of image, text, and the body. HEXENTEXTE borrows her name from Unica Zurn’s book of anagrammatic poems and automatic drawings.

Please note: seating is limited. Box Office opens thirty minutes prior to the listed showtime. Online ticket sales will be honored up until 15 minutes after the scheduled showtime. In-store ticket purchases are subject to availability, first-come, first-served. All Sales Final.