Motion Without Progress
2-channel video installation, HD, loop (Video 10:11 min, Video 03:02 min)

Texts (Inkjet print, 110 × 20 cm) :
“You pass by, yet you stand still”
“How long have you been sleeping while walking?”
“You wait for change overnight, yet remain asleep by day.”

The videos depict the continuous attempt to move from a fixed position. Although freedom of movement is visible, it is employed in an absurd, paradoxical way. A figure pedals a bicycle-like apparatus, whose function is not literal physical displacement from the starting point: effort occurs, yet the position remains unchanged.

You move, yet remain fixed.
You exert effort, yet progress eludes you.

How often do actions, believed to be meaningful, circulate in place – performances of motion without advancement? The work confronts this paradox: the illusion of activity versus the reality of inertia. What drives this discrepancy? Is it ignorance, habit, or the subtle pressures of a system that rewards the appearance of movement over its substance? How much of what we do constitutes genuine forward motion, and how much is endlessly repeated misdirection – small gestures mistaken for change?

By pedaling yet remaining unmoved, the figure embodies a condition familiar to individuals and societies alike: endless striving, the conviction of doing, while structures within and around us prevent true progress. Are we aware of our stillness, or do we sleep while we walk?

The installation questions the nature of action, movement, and development; the ethics of effort; and the illusions that sustain personal and collective inertia. Even what appears to be in motion or development is often a standstill. Awareness of these simultaneous interdependent and contradictory processes is crucial for navigating both personal and collective existence, and for understanding the structures that shape passivity, agency, and transformation.