Salteater is part of the REplay Series. It is a hatbox that contains a small monitor buried in salt. As a metaphor for unpleasant memories or repression in general, it plays a video loop of a mouth that continually tries to take in the salt it is fed, but eventually has to spit it all back up.
The REplay Series explores gender, sexuality, and memory through psychological loops shot on Super8 film and transferred to video, suggesting home movies or a flickery memory. Objects, rhymes, games, technologies, stories and even taunts from childhood reverberate both personally and culturally. Here, a woman tries to remember and forget by enacting and reframing old gestures. Video and sound loops on LCD screens are embedded into objects and projected, some repeating endlessly while others controlled by the presence of the viewer or the whims of the live stock market.