This too shall pass

This too shall pass is a performance installation that examines the erosion of human connection in contemporary society. Through performance, sculpture, photography, and video, the work interrogates how personal information—archived, classified, and stored—reduces individuals to records, rendering them data points rather than beings with unique lived experiences.

The installation constructs a space of tension between presence and absence, intimacy and erasure. At the heart of the work is a meditation on care, loss, and the struggle to retain humanity in a system that prioritises documentation over lived experience. The performance element resists these mechanisms, offering a fleeting moment of connection—one that cannot be wholly archived or quantified. This too shall pass asks; what remains when intimacy is stripped away, when the archive becomes the only proof of existence? How do we reclaim identity beyond the structures that seek to define and contain us?