The main organizing principle of this series of works, which are brought together under the title The Body in Crisis, is the ‘act’ of naming six events or occurrences—six events that together form a repetition, a repetition of the moment that a body is thrown into a state of crisis.

Each event refers to a historical moment in which the body finds itself in a state of crisis through a change of living conditions (be these institutional, hegemonic, administrative, and/or physical). I chose events and occurrences that would allow me to consider the definition of the subject, the perception of the body (along with the division between body and mind), the forces at work on the body and what happens when living conditions change. These events and occurrences would also allow me to reflect on what happens within the body, considering the body as a site of de- and re-territorialization, and as the site at which said conditions are actualized again and again.

The first edition is in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.