X-hale
(2023)
Video shows an X-ray image of an immigrant body during a TB test that seems to be inhabited by moving organisms, while a voiceover intermittently speaks in Indonesian, Korean and fragments of a poem in several languages flicker across the screen. The filmic collage combines the my personal experience as i lived through my body, which became the object of medical examination, with the microscopic images collected at the Ethnography museum. It considers the body as a geopolitical locus. As in territories operations of surveillance are conducted here to distinguish registered, allowed, legalized bodies, from those that are considered as a danger, or as stowaways, illegal entities—bodies crossing borders without permission.