About
My body is not a neutral site, it is constantly shifting. Water, as clear and malleable, is localized.
Surge (2026)
Moving image (3 minutes)
shown at the Royal College of Art, London, UK; Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea; Hochschule Luzern university, Lucerne, Switzerland
Submersion is a deeply erotic and vulnerable act where I relinquish control over the borders of my body. This body I draw like a map with known topograpgies. I touch myself to know I exist, but I am afraid to reach for my borders. My skin feels transparent and I, shapeless. The map is wet, and wetness requires me to let go of control. Wetness mixes, desires and connects. Wetness emanates from me and floods me to long. I invite wetness, letting it lick my every crevice. I long for that kiss, for the rhythmic lap of the current. My skin feels dry. A drop of blood dried on my lips last time I smiled.
Return to shore, the stage of my map. Water timidly touches land. The edge of islands. My edges extend to the rhythm of a current. It moves me, I cannot possess it. Plunge, looking for freedom, for borders uncertain, to not know ownership. I redraw the map of my body each day, extending my arm to graze my border. The border of my island holds a for sale sign. Plunge. I feel part of this surge, I welcome it. touch my borders to moisten dry skin each day.