Tent (I)
sculptural video installation
Tent is an installation that explores the mother-child relationship as a site of shifting boundaries and embodied connection. The work approaches this theme not sentimentally, but through an investigation of the porous line between self and other, inside and outside.
Projected image, sound, scent and material presence come together to form an environment in which roles of seeing and being seen, carrying and being carried, subtly unfold. The spatial composition invites the viewer into a state of heightened attention, where proximity and distance continuously reconfigure themselves.
The work departs from the mother–child relationship, approached not sentimentally but as an inquiry into the permeable boundary between self and other, inside and outside.
It focuses on the shifting dynamics of seeing and being seen, carrying and being carried, and the asymmetry embedded in these roles.
The installation translates these questions into a spatial experience.
Through projected image, sound and material presence, the work creates an environment in which proximity and distance continuously reconfigure themselves, inviting the viewer into a state of embodied attention.
Exhibition view, De Nederlandsche Cacaofabriek, the Netherlands, 2009
Photo‑video, projection on fabric, wall paint, scent: sandalwood, sound: crickets