Pranayama in Front of the House of Health Two Elements of One Exercise

Medium: Performance, photography
Year 2023
Duration: Six hours
Location: The Former House of Health, Etkar-André-Straße 8, 12619 Berlin, DE

About:
In this performance, I introduced participants to Jacques Lacan’s theories of the "object petit a" and the "big Other." These ideas provided a framework for exploring desire, restriction, and the structures that shape them. Participants were invited to share their own associations—either personal or abstract. If they preferred not to engage personally, they could instead respond to my outfit, offering another layer of interpretation. Just as balance in Pranayama can emerge after the breathing exercise itself, a similar balance could appear here—not at the beginning, but after reflecting on what "object petit a" and the "big Other" mean to them, after defining these structures for themselves.

Documentation:
Remote-triggered photography Offset print

Images: 42 cm × 63 cm