The Body As An Archive

Production Year: 2025

Medium: Mixed Media Installation

Exhibited in: Special Collections Room, Angewandte Library (VZA)

A scar, a crease, a subtle asymmetry—marks left behind by the body’s ongoing dialogue with the world. These traces, silent yet persistent, narrate stories of adaptation, routine, and resilience. The body collects them without permission, much like an archive noting interactions with time, space, and circumstance. Imprints form through movement, habit, and the passage of time, layering history onto skin and bone. These marks are neither deliberate nor decorative, yet they archive entire lives. They document the contours of existence, shaped not by grand gestures but by repetition, memory, and the quiet weight of belonging to a body that remembers even when we forget.
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