Where do we locate a sense of being held – and what allows us to feel contained?
like a bucket might hold water negotiates a sense of being held as an unstable state between memory, loss, and search. The work unfolds a narrative in three interrelated spatial moments: a retrospectively heightened projection of the myth of maternal protection and closeness; a “falling-out-of-the-world,” a rupture in which being held shifts into institutional and regulatory structures; and finally an artificial, technologized form of being held – a protective space that suggests warmth and support without ever fulfilling the original image.
Being held here appears not as a feeling, but as spatial manifestations of being held – a relation between body and envelope, between subject and structure, like water that only takes shape in relation to a vessel.
