Thresholds Sarah Volker

by Sarah Volker 

Every day, our bodies undergo minor losses. We shed skin cells, lose strands of hair, trim our nails. We sweat, cry, and release what no longer serves us. Some losses are noticeable – milk teeth fall out, we may lose weight, we lose elasticity and suppleness as we age. Other losses are invasive, abrupt– organs and tumours are excised, limbs are amputated. And some losses are barely perceptible – we may lose the things that once gave us meaning.

This exhibition confronts our anxieties over what is shed, severed, or lost as our bodies shift through cycles of change. It explores the tension between what grows back and what does not, and between what we wish to shed and what we cannot relinquish. Fragments and residues suggest the body, blurring boundaries between inside and outside, self and other. Through material tension, the work traces unease, fragility, and absence.