behind the scenes

This project was developed as a continuation of the solo performance Act, Interrupted, which emerged from my experience navigating bureaucratic systems as an immigrant. The solo performance is focused on the body, and the installation places the audience inside the system that keeps certain bodies permanently in process, waiting, economically indispensable, yet never fully arriving.

The gallery is transformed into a bureaucratic space. Visitors take a ticket stamped with the word HOPE and begin their journey through a taped maze on the floor. The path suggests, and the choice to follow or not is part of the work. At each station, a different mechanism operates. Language operates as both instruction and obstruction. The paths contradicts itself. Nothing resolves here.

How do mechanisms like waiting, delay, and repetition act on the body? How long can a body be kept permanently 'in process'? And what happens when the visitors — for seconds or minutes — become the body inside that system?

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mixed media installation • 2025-2026