Between Holding and Letting Go brings together two video works that explore gesture, labour, and the limits of control through embodied action and environmental exposure.
In What passes through the hands becomes a way of knowing, gestures of pouring, sweeping, and bathing unfold through duration and repetition. Attention is held on repeated gestures as they accumulate through effort and time.
Open to wind follows a singular action shaped by external forces. A figure attempts to hold an emergency blanket against the body as wind resists and reconfigures the gesture, undoing control through exposure and endurance. Intention is continually negotiated with the environment.
Presented together, these works consider embodied action as a way of negotiating uncertainty. Gesture becomes a means of working between effort and release, where meaning emerges through persistence rather than resolution.
Credits
Concept, direction, editing: Sherry Quiambao
Cinematography: Apurva Gupta
Colourist: Kent Hosokawa
Sound: Sherry Quiambao & Christian Quiambao
Movement and performance: Ira Fai
Ira Fai (Fitrya Ali Imran) is a dancer, performer, and actress born and based in Bone, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Her practice draws from the traditions of the Buginese community, which she reinterprets and expresses through contemporary movement. Grounded in embodied research, her work engages cultural memory and lived experience through the body. In recent years, she has expanded into dance film, incorporating ethnographic methods into her creative process.