Instability, Employed
000001“Instability, Employed” considers instability not as a flaw, but as the fundamental condition of both perception and creation. Drawing on the logic of indeterminate systems, it approaches imbalance as a point of origin rather than deviation.
The approach is to examine the illusion of balance as a constructed assumption—one that conceals continuous motion and uncertainty. In response, it proposes the realisation of enclosed spaces in which instability can be engaged, rather than avoided.
Within these conditions, authorship dissolves, and the work becomes a field of exposure rather than possession.
Introspection assumes the existence of a subject capable of observing itself.
The series begins with a different proposition.
Every attempt at self-discovery produces another trace, another reconstruction, another bias.
The evidence accumulates, but
the subject remains assumed.
What appears to be self-reflection may be nothing more than an encounter with the limits of perception.
We are reconstructions by other people.
The series examines the consequences of this proposition.
Separated by a painted surface, the performer attempts to reveal what is presumed to be hidden.
The traces remain visible.
The subject does not.
What emerges is neither a portrait nor a self, but endless traces of the reconstruction of a non-existing subject.