Across the Wound
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Dates2015 - Ongoing
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- Locations Western Sahara, United States, France, India, Spain, Colombia, Bolivia, Japan, Palestine
A fragmented mirror of human landscapes shaped by rupture and memory. Across bodies and territories, the work approaches the wound as a threshold. Where separation is enforced, relation insists, connection and love becoming political resistance.
“Across the Wound” brings together a fragmented field of human landscapes marked by rupture, remembrance and persistence. These images do not map a territory; they move through it — crossing bodies, histories and geographies marked by conflict, displacement and ritual practices, where something has been broken, displaced or taken.
What appears at first as distance begins to resonate differently. Not through similarity, but through exposure. Each image holds a threshold: a place where the visible cracks open, and something else insists on being felt, on being kept alive.
The work unfolds as a passage: from fracture, through exposure, into descent, and across moments of ritual and transformation — towards a form of light that does not close. Spaces recur where presence seems withdrawn — streets, borders, surfaces emptied of action. Yet these are not voids. They are extensions of wounded lives that refuse disappearance, charged with what has been endured, resisted, carried.
It does not seek coherence or resolution. It moves through rupture, descent and encounter, where the body becomes a site of tension, and ritual gestures open temporary grounds for reconfiguration. There is no outside to the wound, only different ways of inhabiting it.
Against enforced separation, relation does not dissolve. It insists. Not as harmony, but as a fragile yet irreducible, embodied force that takes shape in voice, transmission, gesture.
In the end, nothing is healed or closed. But something re-emerges — passed on, held, shared. A way of being with what remains, moving from structural violence towards embodied continuity, without resolving the wound, but holding it in relation. Connection and love do not erase the wound; they move through it, becoming resurgence — and yes, also a form of political resistance.
