An Unforeseen Encounter, 2021-2023
When the rain stopped in Blanca, I could finally go outside. I had used the time to expand my collection of plastic bags by collecting plastic bag from the local market every week. Whereas I had previously worked from a collection of objects and translations into sculpture, I decided to make the interaction between people and objects visible. For this work, I practised and moved with the material full-time for three months to establish a collaboration between my body and the bag. I identified with the material and let it determine my movements. I see the bag, a worthless residual material, as a companion to free my body from the cage I experience it to be. The bag is looking for its place in public space, just like me. The bag served as a metaphor for my search to belong somewhere as a bicultural woman. This was the first time I captured the relationship between my body and an object and used it as a work.
Get in touch if you want to see the video-work.
When the rain stopped in Blanca, I could finally go outside. I had used the time to expand my collection of plastic bags by collecting plastic bag from the local market every week. Whereas I had previously worked from a collection of objects and translations into sculpture, I decided to make the interaction between people and objects visible. For this work, I practised and moved with the material full-time for three months to establish a collaboration between my body and the bag. I identified with the material and let it determine my movements. I see the bag, a worthless residual material, as a companion to free my body from the cage I experience it to be. The bag is looking for its place in public space, just like me. The bag served as a metaphor for my search to belong somewhere as a bicultural woman. This was the first time I captured the relationship between my body and an object and used it as a work.
Get in touch if you want to see the video-work.
