Perhaps (2015) 1 min 45 secs excerpt from 9 mins 01 secs
 
 
Through the subject of the child and the position of an inner conflict it addresses the questions of national borders, identity, and physical restrictions of the human body.
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Originally created for a live performance at The Showroom, London during Ambiguity2 curated by Sarai Kirshner and Valinia Svoronou where I stood silent for the duration of the video repeatedly squeezing a heart-shaped Vodafone stress ball.

 
Image by Xiaowen SunYin ©
 
The second projection featured a crudely made 3D scan of the said heart visually merging into a similar sized piece of Jasper rock I collected from the Ural mountains in Russia (background and animation by Sarai Kirshner and Valinia Svoronou):
 
 
Perhaps has since been shown as a single-screen video work at #Neoliberation: The Self In The Era Of Media, The Albany, Deptford, Guilt Complex, Chalton Gallery, London travelling to MUPO, Oaxaca City and Biquini Wax, Mexico City, Mexico.
 
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