fragile
(2021)

fragile is a performance consisting of a body covered in bubble wrap that enters into a relationship with its surroundings. In its own temporality, the performance moves through the exhibition spaces together with the audience: the body rolls slowly and irregularly around itself, stops, crawls, changes direction, rests, moves on, turns in a new direction. When it stops moving, the mass of bubble wrap becomes an inanimate object and resembles a freestanding sculpture. The partially visible body parts underneath the sculpture create an eerie sight that blurs the human and object into one another. If the distance to the performance is reduced, the audience begins to perceive a sound coming from the bubble wrap. Distorted by the plastic, it is indistinct and indefinable. It is reminiscent of heavy breathing, waves or traffic noise. Like the movements of the body, it accelerates, stops, becomes louder or fades away completely. fragile is a performance made of a body covered in bubblewrap, entering in relation with its environment. The performer slowly and irregularly rolls on themselves, stops, crawls, changes direction, rests, moves further, turns in a new direction. When the body stops moving, the mass of bubblewrap material becomes an unanimated object and resembles a sculpture in a room. Yet with some parts of the body remaining visible, it transmits an uncanny vision as it looks simultaneously human and object. When the audience and performer get close to each other, the audience can hear an emerging sound from within the bubblewrap. Distorted by the plastic, the sound is obscure and undefinable, resembling heavy breathing, waves or traffic noise. Like the movements of the performer, it accelerates, stops, becomes louder or fades completely away. The piece takes place without specific starting or ending time; the body moves to their own time. Moving through exhibition rooms with audience, it coexists within the space.