Portable Privacy

Portable Privacy is a wearable installation activated through performance in public space. This video documents the artist moving through the street and subway while pushing the structure, showing how the work operates when brought into everyday environments. The project began with a simple question: what does a body do when it does not feel neutral? The installation is built from a metal frame resembling hospital equipment, with a form partly inspired by a walker. It suggests care, support, and survival, but also a system in which a body can be managed, monitored, or marked as vulnerable. A translucent curtain wraps around the upper half of the structure, functioning as a mobile privacy screen that interrupts immediate recognition and limits access to the artist’s face and upper body. His hands remain visible outside the structure, gripping its sides as he moves. This gesture can be read as exposure, surrender, or compliance, but it is also the work’s point of agency: he controls the structure, its pace, and its direction. While the wheels imply freedom and mobility, the curtain also restricts vision, turning protection into a form of constraint. By activating the installation in public space, the video emphasizes the contradiction at the center of the work: safety that resembles confinement, care that recalls surveillance, and invisibility that never fully escapes exposure. Through this performance, Portable Privacy considers how bodies navigate public space when visibility itself can feel risky.