Shadow in My House (ongoing)

The series is an ongoing project that stems from the last work ‘Things Happen in My House’ (2020), an artistic reflection and research developed since the COVID pandemic. The work is a collection of bodily performances, images and texts that aims to retrace the minute moments that are happening all around us. In short explanation, those every-second-vanishing moments can be referred to as 'events' in quantum physics, as 'happenings' in art, as 'Dharma' in Buddhism. Through which subtle, tiny bridges are built, The tells of these intimate moments and conversations empower connections between the living environment, human beings and the community. While people are advised to stay home during the coronavirus pandemic, our world has suddenly shrunk to the size of our homes. However, a house can be regarded as a miniature of our entire world. In the world that we are living in, who or what constitutes the ‘otherness’, both living and non-living, tangible and intangible, which we knowingly or unknowingly share our homes with? To further research on this project while society is stepping into the post-pandemic era, I am trying to look into what the simplicity of shadow and light could bridge us. In the images, my house becomes a theatre, where windows, mirrors and sunlight shape the stage. We define ones' objective presence when seeing shadow and shape, whereas where are the positions of audience? What does the present condense with time?