Wounded Life

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Wounded Life unfolds through a series of video-performances in which acts of care are staged as gestures of attention. Using a simple healing bandage, I wrap what appears broken, abandoned, or disconnected: a fractured tree branch, two stones separated on the street, idle swings, and, at times, human relationships strained by migration. These actions do not repair in any literal sense. Instead, they slow down the moment of encounter, asking what it means to notice, to hold, and to remain with what is already wounded. The bandage becomes less a tool of cure and more a temporal device, marking a pause where care is performed rather than resolved.

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Filmed across Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal, the work situates healing within the fragmented geographies of diaspora. The act of wrapping traces a fragile continuity between bodies, objects, and places that no longer seamlessly belong together. In this sense, Wounded Life resists the idea of healing as closure; it proposes instead that repair is ongoing, partial, and relational. What this work holds onto is not wholeness, but the quiet insistence that attention itself can be a form of care, even when nothing is fully restored.

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The project consists of 12 videos, 3 of which has been shown at "Between Ashes & Dreams" Exhibition at OCAD University.