846, 2020 on-going

846, investigates the social impact an action of the body has to contemporary culture and how we perceive the world around us based on the events surrounding these actions. 846 remembers the harrowing 8 minute 46 second death of George Floyd through the powerful symbol of the knee. It highlights the significant importance of the knee as symbol of submission, a tool for oppression, reflective of historical gestures of the fist of the Black Panthers in America, the open hand of change of the MDC political party in Zimbabwe and the bending of the knee in western football. Questioning how the body acts as a code of possible change and oppression in contemporary culture and how that ultimately influences our reactions and defaults to traumatic events and the stories that are interlinked with these gestures.