Matterreal is a visual research project that embodies socio-political practice. By focusing on body and image, which are essential for every aspect of life, through interviews, texts, and visual research, it pursues our most sustainable way to navigate this world.
Here, image includes visual information we receive, but also imagination in our mind, imagery in memory, and all the senses—sound, scent, and touch—which bring specific visions to our mind. Some are abstract, some are vividly figurative. Research on images is research on ourselves as human beings. Our very body is the image.
This research, which centers on artistic expression including photography, also explores “body work”—the inquiry into the body. This is because image and bodily movement are intricately intertwined, and without either, it is impossible to reach the core of the research. Body work brings awareness. It creates a dynamic circulation of maintenance—of your body, yourself, your mind, your senses, and recognition of your communication, your community, and society. Our intellectual endeavors always align with our physical practice.
The realization of a healthy society is based on the small unit of individuals facing their bodies and the dignity of the self. Caring for oneself and others is the very first step toward a larger movement.
Read bodily. Move your parts. Breathe to feel your intellectual relationship with the place and environment.
Be political on every scale. It is our real matter.
Here, image includes visual information we receive, but also imagination in our mind, imagery in memory, and all the senses—sound, scent, and touch—which bring specific visions to our mind. Some are abstract, some are vividly figurative. Research on images is research on ourselves as human beings. Our very body is the image.
This research, which centers on artistic expression including photography, also explores “body work”—the inquiry into the body. This is because image and bodily movement are intricately intertwined, and without either, it is impossible to reach the core of the research. Body work brings awareness. It creates a dynamic circulation of maintenance—of your body, yourself, your mind, your senses, and recognition of your communication, your community, and society. Our intellectual endeavors always align with our physical practice.
The realization of a healthy society is based on the small unit of individuals facing their bodies and the dignity of the self. Caring for oneself and others is the very first step toward a larger movement.
Read bodily. Move your parts. Breathe to feel your intellectual relationship with the place and environment.
Be political on every scale. It is our real matter.
