Ensnared
Salon am Moritzplatz, Berlin, Germany

Ensnared emerges from an investigation of the body’s relationship to touch, access, and restriction, specifically what occurs when the main sources of day to day contact are removed and the body is left present but unable to reach.

In this performance, parts of my body are cast in cement. My hands and feet are fixed in place, immobilized, while my torso and face remain exposed. The limbs that enable movement, touch, and connection are rendered unusable, creating a condition where the body is visible and present, but unable to engage.

The body is placed in a state of suspended contact, where I am present, but unable to engage in the ways that feel natural or mine. No release, only a prolonged holding. Stillness is imposed but also endured. The body remains open to the gaze, but unable to connect.

This work draws on the absence of touch to examine how the body endures.

When contact fails to arrive, when connection slips out of reach, the sensation lingers, gathers, deepens. The body becomes a site of accumulation, where even the untouched can be held.

Ensnared asks how absence lives in the body.
How memory forms without contact.
Whether intimacy can exist without the possibility of touch.

Photography by Sasa Schramm.