The body won't hold, 2026
This work explores the body in relation to inherited forms, gestures that appear fixed, composed, and historically constructed.
Drawing from the visual language of public monuments and sculptural figures, performers are asked to inhabit poses that echo static bodies. These positions carry ideals of control, permanence, and visibility, often shaped by patriarchal and historical representations of the body. Rather than reproducing them faithfully, the work focuses on the moment in which these forms begin to fail.
The body attempts to hold stillness, but cannot sustain it. Tension accumulates, balance shifts, and subtle movements interrupt the illusion of fixity. Breath becomes present. Muscles resist. What appears stable reveals itself as effort.
Alongside these vertical references, the body follows shapes traced on the ground, circles, spirals, and continuous lines. These forms suggest repetition, containment, and return, asking the body to move within a structure while remaining bound to it. The performer becomes both guided and restricted, caught between following and slipping away.
Across the work, the body does not fully break from these imposed forms, but neither does it remain within them. It exists in a state of transition, where inherited gestures are inhabited, questioned, and gradually undone.