Twelve

Melanie Manchot

Twelve explores the intimate stories, rituals and ruptures of lives spent in addiction and recovery. It captures the individual processes of 12 people with whom artist Melanie Manchot collaborated in three rehabilitation communities. Participants watched iconic films and selected favorite scenes to reinterpret, while applying their own narratives and performances. Through the works shared here, Melanie enables us to witness three participants’ paths out of long-term addiction and towards recovery, and the slow process of building new identities and ways of living.

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London-based artist Melanie Manchot employs photography, film, video and sound to form a sustained enquiry into how we form ideas about our individual and collective identities. Performance-to-camera, reconstruction and participation, as well as location-based research are recurring methodologies.