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Mainline:RUS/Fr.CA/DE Will Turn Your Old Couch Into a Grail Thyago Sainte This piece appears as part of “BERLIN, BERLIN” a weekend-long virtual celebration of the city. Head here to see the full series. A woman (played by performance artist Elza Ozolite) walks into a room and sits on a beige leather couch. She tests it for comfort, touches it, lies across it. Her fingers drape across the veined surface. The gesture’s tactility is undeniably erotic: skin on skin. Then, with a knife, she starts to cut into the skin along the seams, breaking staples, ripping it open to expose the inner stuffing. The process is visibly laborious. Sweating, the woman cuts off sheets of leather and slings it over her shoulders, stripping the couch like a carcass. It sounds strange to say it, but you feel embarrassed for the couch. Then, like a meat slab in a Francis Bacon painting, the couch is hooked and hung from the ceiling with fringes of yellow sponging wafting away from the cou ....