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Ecdysis II
Think about nakedness, the risk, putting one鈥檚 whole body on the line. A new emotional and physical agency comes with the freedom from a protective shell combining simultaneously with the anxiety of waiting for the stronger exoskeleton to form. As in ecdysis, the objects act as tethers to those painful thrilling moments, continuing to conduct the original energy, lambent like burning filaments. The vulnerable performance act of all creation, whether public or private, marks the beginning.
Now in ecdysis II, the first layer of skin remains a memory in Antwerp, exuviae. An absent architecture travels with the objects; the past lingers in this changed state. Though a body has left, the form remains. The writing body
echoes in the cicada鈥檚 shell as the song finds another home and other ears. Structuring the show in two parts
mirrors the titular biological process, another step of maturation.
They carry the lives of their makers, walking outward, an expulsion into more and more lives, more situations, more rooms. Some bits of skin and hair and spit have made their way into the object, a typo in the text, a glitch in the code, a discoloration of the film. A slip of the eye or lips or hand or tongue.
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Think about nakedness, the risk, putting one鈥檚 whole body on the line. A new emotional and physical agency comes with the freedom from a protective shell combining simultaneously with the anxiety of waiting for the stronger exoskeleton to form. As in ecdysis, the objects act as tethers to those painful thrilling moments, continuing to conduct the original energy, lambent like burning filaments. The vulnerable performance act of all creation, whether public or private, marks the beginning.
Now in ecdysis II, the first layer of skin remains a memory in Antwerp, exuviae. An absent architecture travels with the objects; the past lingers in this changed state. Though a body has left, the form remains. The writing body
echoes in the cicada鈥檚 shell as the song finds another home and other ears. Structuring the show in two parts
mirrors the titular biological process, another step of maturation.
They carry the lives of their makers, walking outward, an expulsion into more and more lives, more situations, more rooms. Some bits of skin and hair and spit have made their way into the object, a typo in the text, a glitch in the code, a discoloration of the film. A slip of the eye or lips or hand or tongue.
