JOSHUA SERAFIN: GRIEVE THE DEPARTED WOUND

The wound does not merely scar... It drifts, whispers, and lingers.

In this space, the wound is not a static object for observation but an atmospheric presence, an entity waiting to enter a shared vibration with the bodies that encounter it.

Grieve the Departed Wound is a performative milieu where the boundary between spectator and performer dissolves. Within this environment of movement making and memory-retrieval, visitors are invited to drift through the physical and conceptual debris of performance, becoming part of the entanglement they witness.

Through a lens of liminality, the exhibition seeks a rhythmic relationship between the scenography of Serafin’s two projects: Cosmological Gangbang and Lost Ancestors. Using the material agency of reconstructed installations, videos, and paintings infused with the artist’s physical traces and past performances, the gallery is transformed into a vessel. It reconfigures darkness, stillness, body, and

time, turning objects into witnesses.

In this wound, an atmospheric presence. Please rest, muse, feel. This work is a portal inviting you to inhabit it.

傷口不單是結痂，它在遊蕩、在低語、在縈繞。在此空間裡，傷口並非靜止的對象被觀察，而是存在着一種氣場，一個等待與交會的身軀進入共振的實體。

《Grieve the Departed Wound》是一個表演性場域，觀者與表演者之間的界限在此消解。在這動態生成與記憶檢索的環境中，訪客遊蕩於表演的物理性與概念性碎片之間，成為他們親身見證之糾纏的一部分。

透過閾限的視角，本展覽在 Serafin 的兩個計畫《Cosmological Gangbang》與《Lost Ancestors》的場景調度之間，尋求一種節奏性的關聯。藉由劇場裝置、表演錄像，以及注入了藝術家身體痕跡與表演殘餘物的畫作所展現的物質能動性，展廳被轉化為一個容器，重置了黑暗、靜止、身體與時間的能動性，將物件轉化為見證者。

在傷口之中，存在着一種氣場； 一個邀請你棲息其中的出入口 - 請在此休憩、沉思、感應。