100 WAYS TO BE INSIDE OF A RECTANGLE.

"Paradise Lost #gender shift" in der Galerie der Künstler des BBK. Munich, Germany​ 2021

Live performance for camera and monitor.

 

Who does my body belong to?
What space do we inhabit within our bodies, and what space exists outside them?

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Developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, 100 Ways to Be Inside of a Rectangle investigates the borders of the self through bodily confinement and digital framing. In a period marked by isolation, separated from the studio, materials, and physical contact, I turned to what was immediately available: my body, a camera, and the increasingly dominant digital space.

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Over three months, I followed a diet inspired by yogic practices to enhance flexibility and cultivate mental stillness through daily meditation. As a disciplined routine, I developed and rehearsed a sequence of postures performed within the spatial limitation of the iPhone screen, a rectangle that became both frame and constraint.

 

The live performance unfolds in front of a camera connected to a monitor. My body transitions through one hundred carefully developed postures, each negotiating the boundaries of the rectangular frame. The work explores physical adaptability, containment, and the tension between autonomy and restriction, positioning the body as both subject and architecture of its own confinement.

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