In a darkened gallery chamber, the artist greets an audience member alone, disrobes and enters a large box. Audience members may insert their hands, feeling but not making contact.
The performance explores the dynamics of exposure and control, critiquing the ways bodies are consumed. The box is not simply a stage, but a cipher for the many enclosures into which women are placed: the pornographic frame, the domestic sphere, the cultural narrative of “available flesh.” The orifices, suggestive and ambiguous, invite a complicit gesture. The audience becomes both voyeur and participant, disarmed by the inability to complete contact, to possess.
“The genesis of this work lies in my observation of a culture that has eroticised the absence of consent. The female body is framed again and again as endlessly available, endlessly submissive, endlessly silent. Inside the box, I disappear into the architecture, reclaiming a kind of agency that refuses to entertain or explain.”
