In Pause
2025
Varies Sized
Plywood, metal, lock, door handle, spring, keys, tapes
in pause stages a quiet ritual of taking and returning. Through a simple sequence of keys and compartments, the work guides the participant into a space of suspension where completion is not marked by possession, but by the act of giving something back. Informed by Victor Turner’s theory of liminality, the piece invites viewers into an in-between state, a momentary displacement from linear action or resolution. Here, time folds, agency softens, and responsibility becomes shared. To open the final box is not to arrive, but to hint what came before. in pause explores the poetics of closure, the ethics of care, and the subtle authority embedded in gestures we perform without notice, those quiet acts of maintenance, attention, and return that shape how we hold space, memory, and each other.
