Exploring the connection between memory and trauma, CORTEX is an immersive video installation by the artist, shown at MEP Studio, which conjures a labyrinthine forest immersed in a soundscape populated by living organisms. The starting point for the artist's forthcoming feature-length hybrid documentary MAILIN—based on the story of Mailin Gobbo, who was sexually abused for fifteen years by the priest at her school—the short film CORTEX evokes the atmosphere of a dreamlike forest, as in the telling of a fairy tale, driven by the quest to recover the memory of a forgotten past. Imagined as a metaphorical vision of an individual's subconscious, the installation is conceived as a sacred place where memory is transformed into an active organ that is in constant reflection.