This work was commissioned by Michel Marang who is Amsterdam based clarinetist and photographer.
Aphasia, from ancient Greek aphatos meaning ‘speechlessness’, is an acquired disorder caused by damage to the parts of the brain that contain language. People with aphasia may experience difficulty communicating with and expressing themselves to the world around them.
We always use our voice to make connections with the outside world and to try to prove the existence of self. From the moment we start talking, the bodies has inevitably becomes the shackles of the mind. Language is endowed with a kind of magic power. I began to wonder if the language we create in fact turns on us, controls us. When I persisted in exploring this paradox, it seemed as thought I was brought into a state of ‘aphasia’. As the Buddhist saying goes, what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.