Reborn
2024Experimental Performance
30’00’’
Photography
Reborn is an experimental performance photography work that explores the ontological relationships between body, space, and existence, privately presented in the natural environment of the Cotswolds in October 2024. Through a thirty-minute performance process, the work constructs a visual narrative concerning rebirth, return, and spatial identity.
The performance begins with a symbolic "birth"—the artist emerges naked from a bathtub, reconceptualizing the bathtub as a metaphorical space of the primordial womb. This opening not only references biological birth but suggests an existential reconstruction of the self. Subsequently, the artist enters the natural forest environment, exploring the dialogical relationship between body and organic space through experimental dance, ultimately returning to the embracing arms of the jungle.
This work continues the artist's sustained exploration of the concept of "body as container." By juxtaposing the intimate space of the adolescent bedroom with the public natural environment, the work questions traditional spatial boundaries and bodily limits. The core question posed by the artist—"If my fantasy is a room, if my body is a room"—reveals a radical spatial philosophy: the body not only occupies space but becomes the generator of space itself.
Within this conceptual framework, the artist imagines the self as "a light sphere emanating yellow luminescence," a poetic expression that suggests a state of existence transcending physical boundaries. Through analogizing different scales of space—body, room, city—the work explores how individual subjectivity is constructed and redefined through spatial practice.Reborn is not only an expansion of traditional performance art boundaries but a profound meditation on contemporary body politics and spatial phenomenology. Through photographic documentation, the work transforms ephemeral performance into a gazeable visual text, inviting viewers into a philosophical dialogue concerning existence, space, and corporeality.
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