EXPANDED PRACTICE    

False Guilt, Soft Borders 
                        
Yin Deng
@yin.d_104



Soft Borders addresses a seemingly basic but often overlooked question: how are our bodily boundaries formed, shifted, or reclaimed through everyday gestures?

In this project, I do not treat the body as a container of emotions or narratives. Instead, I understand it as a tool that continuously negotiates boundaries.
Boundaries are not abstract ideas, but conditions made perceptible through touch, friction, and cleaning.

Using two soap snails as the central medium, the project materializes two intergenerational logics: one of softness and internalised restraint, and the other of friction, refusal, and resistance.
Placed on the skin, these soap forms reveal how inherited forces leave traces, become dissolved, or are actively resisted.