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Locks, chains, keys and two contrasting black and white figures formed the symbolic language of the performance. Through repeated physical actions, restraint and release were enacted through the body rather than explained through narrative.

RiMo marked the first appearance of symbolic figures that would later recur throughout Muller’s practice, carrying questions of identity, duality, perception and transformation.

One action became particularly significant in retrospect: while the black figure worked through acts of release, the white figure quietly collected the discarded locks.

What initially functioned as an intuitive performative gesture would later suggest a recurring aspect of the wider practice - the gathering of symbolic material before its meaning is consciously understood.

The performance was partly informed by a recurring dream in which a monk instructed the artist:

“Unlock RiMo and you will unlock everything.”

The title also drew on the artist’s encounter with RiMo, understood at the time through a Tibetan story concerning a fleeting encounter with beauty becoming the catalyst for artistic creation.



Seen from the perspective of the later practice, RiMo represents an early stage in the development of a visual and embodied symbolic language: one through which material that could not yet be articulated directly was given form through character, object, movement and image.

Performance documentation and archival material available on request.