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Installation, Text / Concept / Research · 2025

The Body as an Archive: A Journey Through the Marks and Memories We Bear.

Master thesis
Photo © Jorit Aust, 2025 licensed under CC BY NC ND 4.0

2025, Installation, Text / Concept / Research — shown in Master’s Projects | Winter semester 2024/25.

A scar, a crease, a subtle asymmetry—marks left behind by the body’s ongoing dialogue with the world. These traces, silent yet persistent, narrate stories of adaptation, routine, and resilience. The body collects them without permission, much like an archive noting that records interactions with time, space, and circumstance. Imprints form through movement, habit, and the passage of time, layering history onto skin and bone. These marks are neither deliberate nor decorative, yet they archive entire lives. They document the contours of existence, shaped not by grand gestures but by repetition, memory, and the quiet weight of belonging to a body that remembers even when we forget.

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CategoriesMaster project, Installation, Visual Archive
Date22 January 2025
CreditsMaster graduate:Toqa Eissa
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Photo © Jorit Aust, 2025
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Photo © Jorit Aust, 2025
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