This brings together work documenting an ongoing inquiry into the body—its visibility, its absence and its politicisation. Tracing the contours of illness, endurance and the complex work of accepting a body that does not always comply.
At the core of this is a differently-abled body in resistance. Resistance to the pressure to perform consistently. Resistance to being read, judged or simplified through what is visible.
Like my body, they invite assumptions, projections and misunderstandings. Each image is a moment of endurance, but also of care. The performances are acts of survival—rituals of vulnerability and refusal. They speak to the politics of having a body that does not align with normative ideals, and to the quiet strength required simply to exist within systems that demand coherence, compliance and productivity.
This work is not just about being unwell. It is about living within unwellness. Finding power in absence. Claiming space.
At times, absence is the most honest gesture I can make. I am continuously exploring how we document performance, and how witnessing and remembering can become acts of care—or violence.
This work is asking not for sympathy, but to be witnessed.
