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Pech, Vienna
Inga Meldere
Breathwork
June 29 – August 24, 2024.
Anything covered is always interesting. There is never nothing beneath. Imagination, no matter the circumstances, fills the void, constantly at work,seeping into every fissure.
Inhale slowly and deeply through your nose. Keep your shoulders relaxed. Your abdomen should expand, and your chest should rise very little. Beneath the white layer of paint on the walls lie images and patterns that bridge the worlds of the past and the affections of the present.
Exhale. At some point, people believed that the breath of entered the body through the right ear while the breath of death entered through the left. Later explana- tions described breathing as drawing air into the lungs, fuel- ing the heart like a combustion engine, a chemical reaction that reacts rapidly with oxygen and releases energy in the form of heat, soul, light, and carbon dioxide, removing sooty and fuliginous spirits from the body.
Inhale. Galen, the physician of Marcus Aurelius, was concerned with the conflicting requirements for the heart and lungs to generate innate heat. Just like a fire, the heart would extinguish without air. A delicate balance was necessary between fanning the source of the heat and cool- ing it in due proportion.
Completely exhale through your mouth, making a “whoosh!” sound. Place and keep the tip of your tongue against the ridge of tissue behind your upper front teeth. Gruff and grimy waste products are discharged from the lungs through the blood. The squalid materials lift off and diffuse in the ether once the breath is pushed out of the body.
Breathe normally for a few moments, then begin the pattern anew.
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text by Luīze Nežberte and Bruno Mokross
photos: Flavio Palasciano