Concluding the 2026 Sunroom Project Space season, Melanie Brewster ’s installation A Metaphysical Quest for the Deepest Backbend unfolds as if in medias res —a Latin phrase meaning “in the middle of things.” Set in a metafictional world, the installation reads like a scene after an esoteric ritual following a woman whose yoga practice becomes so extreme that she transforms into an ouroboros: a serpent consuming its own tail, a symbol of cyclical time and eternal return. A series of large…