The sculpture Relieved emerges from Quinn’s confrontation with despair in life, asking: if death promises release, what is the face of suffering while alive? Language falters in describing such a state, and so the figure appeared—unfinished, incomplete, demanding a ritual.

Quinn created that ritual through a four-hour performance in which the sculpture was gradually dissolved by a contraption accompanied by an original piano composition. This act became the basis of a video work. When played forward, it speaks of exhaustion, silence, and release; reversed, it transforms into an image of renewal, shifting despair into the possibility of rebirth.