How do we understand displacement? Process loss? While we recognise displacement as a rupture in space, can we also understand it as a fissure in time—a dislocation of past/present/future?

mo(u)rning rituals encounters these questions, untangling their possibilities. The work transforms the quotidian experience of brewing traditional Turkish coffee into a site of discovery and disclosure. This otherwise mundane act is performed with the significance and beauty of ritual, becoming a mode for transcending the present, a passageway connecting past and future, a remembrance ceremony.

The camera observes the most tactile elements of the process: water as it boils and bubbles forth, the careful spooning of ground coffee into a jezva (coffee pot), dark liquid rising to the surface like lava, steam and shadows dancing across planes. Alongside the materiality of the act, there’s also something intangible, spectral about the whole process—a haunting of past lives, past cities, disappeared possibilities.

Ena Grozdanić is a writer and an emerging artist residing on unceded Kaurna land. She’s also a Co-Director at FELTspace ARI. Ena’s writing has appeared in The Monthly, Frieze, Mousse Magazine, KRASS Journal, The Adelaide Review, and others. In 2017, Ena completed a writing residency at Can Serrat, Spain, where she wrote a number of experimental narrative essays responding to the theme of lost worlds. That same year, as a member of KRASS Journal, Ena was a panellist at the Melbourne Art Book Fair, discussing the commodification of dystopia, the hysteria of Mars, and the alternatives to despair. In May 2021, Ena completed a residency at Testing Grounds, Naarm/Melbourne, with collaborator Sally Craven to develop a video installation responding to the human and more-than-human stories embedded in river-systems. The video was exhibited at FELTspace in July 2021. Currently, Ena is fascinated by the dynamics of memory, particularly as they relate to disappearing landscapes.