A Space That Is No Place

• Performance/Installation, 2017
• Performed by the participating members of the audience
• Size: 12 x 12 x 12 ft

• A Space That is No Place is part of a performance series called Geometry of Exile, an embodiment of the artist’s journey as an immigrant. In this installation, the audience is invited inside a cubic room to perform with eight plywood sculptures. The triangular pieces are initially arranged in the form of a line and each piece is one side reflective, the other side black. The participant's movement is constrained by being allowed to only walk and stand on the surface of the wooden triangles.

The performer disrupts the linear formation of the sculpture by rolling the triangles on their sides forward and backward, during which the structures should not overlap or stack on top of each other. Eventually the performer moves along with the triangles in the direction they unfold, from one place to another. This play of moving oneself through a puzzle-like arrangement of voids, shadows and reflections, conjures an ever-shifting landscape inside the cubic form.