It commences with the repeated self-questioning in recent years.

Are there other possibilities for gestures to occur or extend? What are the true purposes behind each posture? The body is a carrier that not only demonstrates aesthetics but also bears the collective consciousness and unconsciousness of an era, which reflects individuals and society. As such, how do body postures relate to living and life, and how do emotions connect to bodies internally and externally to build up a network to respond to living?

The inquiries prompt the artist to return to her daily life for further exploration.

Supposing that people’s poses and gestures, be they physical or mental, tend to be responses to the present social situations, what do our bodies look like in our quotidian lives? Why do we stand like this, sit like that, and walk in this way? Why do we choose to raise our chins, turn our shoulders, or draw in our chests by certain degrees? Departing from all kinds of daily postures, the project reexamines how the habituated gestures gradually take shape, aiming to identify the methods of utilizing and reconstructing the postures through the process of the reexamination, which, in turn, helps to expose the underlying significance and spirit embedded in the choices after reconstruction.

Beginning with daily gestural movements, the project meticulously observes and collects body postures and details while paying return visits and reproducing in an effort to determine a choreographic language that echoes contemporary society and emotional conditions. The process is not only an organization and reconstruction of body language but also endeavors to create an in-depth conversation with contemporary social phenomena and culture.

Photographer｜ LIN Yu Huan