“Cleaning” begins with a simple gesture: sweeping.
This repetitive movement establishes a direct, tactile relation between body, material, and space. Meaning does not emerge through representation, but through the act itself—through contact, rhythm, and duration.
Originating from a site marked by violence against women in war, the gesture carries a specific historical weight. Without becoming illustrative, it holds traces of what has taken place, allowing presence and memory to persist through the body’s engagement with the ground.
What begins as an intimate, situated performance gradually opens into a wider field of resonance. “Cleaning” extends into a collective practice, inviting participants to engage the gesture within their own contexts—shaped by personal, historical, or ongoing experiences of conflict, displacement, or tension.
In this shift, the work does not dissolve but continues: the act of sweeping becomes a shared yet differentiated form, in which each iteration carries its own focus while remaining connected to the initial impulse.
Developed across video, drawing, and spatial constellations, “Cleaning” moves between reduction and density, between the immediacy of the body and the persistence of what cannot be fully articulated, yet insists on being felt.