skin 2.0 explores the weight of language and memory — how words spoken years ago settle into the body, shaping and distorting it over time. revisiting the text from vivisections — a debut work centered on sexual violence — the video confronts trauma not to relive it, but to examine how it persists beneath the skin.
the body becomes both archive and battleground. words, once urgent, now return with uneven rhythm — steady, then faltering — mirroring the dissonance between emotional distance and immediate pain. skin cracks; rust gathers under fingernails; the body holds the imprint of things long passed. the words remain, carved into flesh, etched into muscle memory.
the video’s aesthetic is stripped down — raw lighting, unembellished sound, close framing of the body. the absence of theatricality heightens the vulnerability. this is not a performance of healing — it’s an attempt to sit with the weight of things that refuse to fade.
language here operates as both wound and salve. the act of speaking becomes a negotiation between power and vulnerability — reclaiming the narrative while acknowledging the impossibility of undoing harm. it holds the discomfort of carrying language in the body, of learning to live with a history that never fully dissolves.