This work consists of a two-part video centered on an interaction between the artist’s mother and a rifle she had trained with as a teenager in the Philippines during the Martial Law period between the 1970s and 1980s. In the first part, she attempts to assemble the weapon, pausing, hesitating, and gradually retrieving the sequence of movements from memory. In the second part, she reenacts elements of a drill routine. The gestures are not recalled with precision, yet remain recognizable.

The rifle shown is an M1 Garand, a model historically used in the Philippines since the mid-20th century. Rather than providing a historical account, the work focuses on the present encounter between body and object, and on how memory is reactivated through physical engagement.

The work is informed by conversations with the artist’s mother and her former classmates, who underwent the same training. It reflects on repetition as a practice that can both discipline and shape the body over time. Knowledge appears here as embodied and situational, rather than fixed or fully accessible.

First shown in Berlin as part of Female Rage, the work addresses how women are perceived in everyday life and what forms of knowledge remain unrecognized. It also functions as an invitation, particularly to second-generation German-Filipinos, to initiate similar conversations within their own families. Do you know this gun?