©2005 Ingrid Lahti
Installation and video
Squeeze grew out of my consideration of the ambivalence with which we relate to our bodies; our constant search for physical pleasures through touch and food, in opposition to our attempts to control and shape our bodies as though they were foreign objects.
In the continually looping, 3-minute video, Squeeze, a woman attempts to draw her real body into a standard-sized neoprene wetsuit.
Video by HELSINQI, 2005. Produced by Ingrid Lahti.