Touch
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관리자 2025-12-15 09:47
쟈닌 안토니 Janine Antoni.jpg (322.02 KB)Janine Antoni, Touch, 2002, video installation, 9min. 37sec.
Janine Antoni employs her body as tool and material of her work. She uses everyday processes such as bathing, eating, or sleeping to blur the boundary between art and life.
Touch is a video work filmed on the seashore in front of Janine Antoni’s childhood home on Grand Bahama Island. In the video, she walks a tightrope stretched across the sand. As she carefully balances, the rope subtly dips to "touch" the horizon blurring the boundary between sea and sky. Yet, nature unfolds its rhythm, indifferent to her effort.This work reflects the fragility humans feel in an age of climate uncertainty and thier search for balance, while also inviting reflection on our relationship with nature.
Presented on the actual shoreline of Dadaepo, where sea meets sky, Touch resonates closely with the subtitle of the Sea Art Festival 2025: Waves Walking on the Water. Like walking on water Antoni’s work visualizes the relationship between human and nature. In an age of climate uncertainty, her work becomes a quiet meditation on vulnerability and the search for balance, while also prompting viewers to contemplate their own relationship with nature.