I like to think of all bodies as being porous in one way or another. From the objects we encounter to the buildings we inhabit to our own bodies, everything exists within a system that, try as we might, remains open.
Through language, unseen performance, sound, light, video, architectural intervention, and objects situated throughout the ICA, IN THE WAKE OF THE DESIRING PATH engages the institution not as a hermetic, closed, body, but as one susceptible to change and influence via the various bodies that move through it.
By recalibrating the way we look at and experience artwork, my practice aims to impact how we encounter one another, recognizing that these systems of relation reflect broader systems of power and oppression in our culture at large.
Installed as a part of the 2025 VCUarts MFA Thesis Exhibition exhibited in The Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU. Curated by Misa Jeffereis (Associate Curator, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis), Egbert Vongmalaithong (Assistant Curator, ICA at VCU), and Chase Westfall (Head of Gallery and Exhibitions, VCUarts Qatar), the 2025 exhibition reveals a cross-section of emergent practices that are rooted in collaboration, experimentation, and the urgency to make meaning in an ever-changing world.
