Yara Bou Nassar

The performance examines the stimuli that make the body fragile and submissive or resilient and resistant. It also probes fragility in its most intimate and private moments and the struggle to sustain the illusion of self-control. Towards these ends, it dissects daily habits, memories and anxieties related to family dynamics, social relations and lasting trauma, and it exposes organic responses carried from childhood to adulthood by revisiting family video archives which, in turn, calls into question the legitimacy of preserving memories through photography.