Single channel video

Sound, color

2 min 17 sec

With each exhalation, the balloon expands, gradually obscuring my body. Breath becomes volume, pressure, and time.

The action continues until the balloon can no longer contain the accumulated air. Breathing functions as both effort and constraint, an action that must be sustained without knowing its endpoint.

Thảo Bùi, Blowing / Breathing, 2023, color photograph of a shirtless person inflating a translucent balloon while looking toward the camera.
Thảo Bùi, Blowing / Breathing, 2023, color photograph of a person pressing their hands against a translucent surface, with their face blurred by condensation.