THE LOST CITY
100 walking practices
Sweet, Lost, Our Belly Button
2023
“Lose the whole world, get lost in it,
and find your soul...”
and find your soul...”
To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. To be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. This is an allegory of lostness and desire. By combining narratives of different media - sculpture, moving image, performance - I try to weave a sweet, melancholic and lost city…
My work is inspired by the significant practice of Situationist International(SI). Sl believed strongly in the potential of drifting (Dérive) through a city as a means of identifying oneself more closely with a sense of personal and political liberty. Motion through urban space was considered a revolutionary act one which one undertook personally, making notes as one drifted, unfolding secret hidden meanings in the traversed city.
100 Walking Practices
This is a work that combines sculpture and performance. Based on my own field trip, I have made different sculptures using metal sheets, which are like fixed 'named objects' or specific spots in our map. They are displayed in the space as if we were walking through the city with different intentions of getting to a destination or a cold architecture that excludes our bodies. I explore the space of movement within the limits - the unnamed spaces that are part of us - by walking through these sculptures differently day after day. Through recording each different movement, I eventually create a new map.
The state of disorientation has always fascinated me and I began to reflect on the way we walk and move in our everyday lives. If we look carefully at all the maps available, we will find that they are full of geographical nomenclature - cities and living spaces are divided into one 'destination' after another, and every time we walk we are always moving from one point (destination) to another point (destination). Our trajectory is always moving from point to point, and this extremely strong sense of purpose dissolves the meaning of the process of walking itself.
In this work I am therefore strongly opposed to this way of being named and the existence of the named subject. I want to focus on the process of walking between points, that is, on the state of flow and the "blank broken zones'' that have not yet been named.By reversing the traditional map, I create my new map and explore its different meaning and potential by combining sculpture and performance.
Record video of “100 walking practices” and “ Sweet, lost, our belly button”
Sweet, Lost, Our Belly Button...
