Dancer in the Dark/Split-seconds
Dancer in the Dark/Split-seconds
2025
Video Installation
Size Variable
Digital Print on Paper
10cm x 12cm each



Dancer in the Dark explores meanings and memories of movement.
Some years ago, I documented a dancer’s improvised movements in unusual locations in my home city. Before I could edit the clips, everything changed and one could not dance in those locations anymore. The clips were left untouched in my hard disk since. Years later, I found the courage to revisit them, only to realise how fragmented and amateur the clips were shot. With nothing left on site, I started to ponder whether these movements still matter after more than a decade.
Carrying these questions, I decided to extract the dance moves and let them float in the installation. The haunting images of these movements mirror those in our memory. Every gesture prompts us a question: how do we move on from then to now?
The movements are further dissected in the photo print series Split-seconds, where one second of footage is reduced to individual frames.
The work was exhibited in the three-person show MISTAKES in the Sea: The Untranslatable Loss Between Hong Kong and the UK.
Dancer in the Dark explores meanings and memories of movement.
Some years ago, I documented a dancer’s improvised movements in unusual locations in my home city. Before I could edit the clips, everything changed and one could not dance in those locations anymore. The clips were left untouched in my hard disk since. Years later, I found the courage to revisit them, only to realise how fragmented and amateur the clips were shot. With nothing left on site, I started to ponder whether these movements still matter after more than a decade.
Carrying these questions, I decided to extract the dance moves and let them float in the installation. The haunting images of these movements mirror those in our memory. Every gesture prompts us a question: how do we move on from then to now?
The movements are further dissected in the photo print series Split-seconds, where one second of footage is reduced to individual frames.
The work was exhibited in the three-person show MISTAKES in the Sea: The Untranslatable Loss Between Hong Kong and the UK.
Film list of the accompany talk:
The Arrival of a Train by Auguste and Louis Lumière (1895)
The Kiss in the Tunnel by George Albert Smith (1899)
Train Again by Peter Tscherkassky (2021)
The Great Train Robbery by Edwin S. Porter (1903)
Odd Man Out by Carol Reed (1947)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her by Jean-luc
Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese (1976)
Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
pièce touché (1989) and passage à l’acte (1993) by Martin Arnold
Land Without Bread by Luis Buñuel (1933)
The Automobile Accident by Auguste and Louis Lumière (1905)
The Vanishing Lady by Georges Méliès (1896)
How It Feels to Be Run Over by Cecil M. Hepworth (1900)
Passion (2008) and The Depths (2010) by Ryusuke Hamaguchi




Dancer in the Dark/Split-seconds
Dancer in the Dark/Split-seconds
2025
Video Installation
Size Variable
Digital Print on Paper
10cm x 12cm each



Dancer in the Dark explores meanings and memories of movement.
Some years ago, I documented a dancer’s improvised movements in unusual locations in my home city. Before I could edit the clips, everything changed and one could not dance in those locations anymore. The clips were left untouched in my hard disk since. Years later, I found the courage to revisit them, only to realise how fragmented and amateur the clips were shot. With nothing left on site, I started to ponder whether these movements still matter after more than a decade.
Carrying these questions, I decided to extract the dance moves and let them float in the installation. The haunting images of these movements mirror those in our memory. Every gesture prompts us a question: how do we move on from then to now?
The movements are further dissected in the photo print series Split-seconds, where one second of footage is reduced to individual frames.
The work was exhibited in the three-person show MISTAKES in the Sea: The Untranslatable Loss Between Hong Kong and the UK.
Dancer in the Dark explores meanings and memories of movement.
Some years ago, I documented a dancer’s improvised movements in unusual locations in my home city. Before I could edit the clips, everything changed and one could not dance in those locations anymore. The clips were left untouched in my hard disk since. Years later, I found the courage to revisit them, only to realise how fragmented and amateur the clips were shot. With nothing left on site, I started to ponder whether these movements still matter after more than a decade.
Carrying these questions, I decided to extract the dance moves and let them float in the installation. The haunting images of these movements mirror those in our memory. Every gesture prompts us a question: how do we move on from then to now?
The movements are further dissected in the photo print series Split-seconds, where one second of footage is reduced to individual frames.
The work was exhibited in the three-person show MISTAKES in the Sea: The Untranslatable Loss Between Hong Kong and the UK.
Film list of the accompany talk:
The Arrival of a Train by Auguste and Louis Lumière (1895)
The Kiss in the Tunnel by George Albert Smith (1899)
Train Again by Peter Tscherkassky (2021)
The Great Train Robbery by Edwin S. Porter (1903)
Odd Man Out by Carol Reed (1947)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her by Jean-luc
Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese (1976)
Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
pièce touché (1989) and passage à l’acte (1993) by Martin Arnold
Land Without Bread by Luis Buñuel (1933)
The Automobile Accident by Auguste and Louis Lumière (1905)
The Vanishing Lady by Georges Méliès (1896)
How It Feels to Be Run Over by Cecil M. Hepworth (1900)
Passion (2008) and The Depths (2010) by Ryusuke Hamaguchi



