Sensory Fragments

Sensory Fragments begins from Gilles Deleuze’s understanding of the body as an active ground of sensation, a living process through which sense is both generated and received. I regard sensation not as passive reception, but as an active mode of being. The body gathers fragments of sensation, layering them as embodied memory that shapes perception and emotion over time. When these traces are reawakened, they resurface as sensory intensities that blur the boundary between past and present.

 

Drawing on Bessel van der Kolk’s study of trauma, the work explores how the body stores sensory and emotional memories in fragmented form. When trauma disrupts the body’s ability to integrate perception, these fragments persist as latent impressions that resurface involuntarily as flashbacks or bodily responses. Sensory Fragments reflects on this process of reactivation, revealing how the body unconsciously reproduces its own sensory history and how the act of sensing becomes a means through which trauma manifests and transforms perception.