“There, I am at the border of my condition as a living being. My body extricates itself, as being alive, from that border… nothing remains in me…”
— Julia Kristeva, 1982

I Think My Body No Longer Belongs to Me focuses on the extent to which a person has the opportunity and ability to make decisions about their own body. The body finds itself at the center of a complex economy of attention, hypercapitalism, and geopolitical struggles, which create unbearable pressure on the individual body. The exhibition explores the shifting meanings of the body within today’s political, biological, and digital regimes, which affect and exhaust the body in different ways—some more directly, others more subtly. For example, how the state appropriates and mobilizes bodies in wartime through biopolitical control; how reproductive and sexual expectations exhaust the female body; and how digital environments fragment a person’s physical and virtual selves. Furthermore, how contemporary aesthetic images do not allow the body to age as predetermined and produce the discourse of so-called “longevity” and its internalization, which exerts a subtle yet persistent pressure to optimize and alter the body. Through these themes, the exhibition poses a central question: to what extent does the body actually belong to the person themselves?

The exhibition opens with the performance Body Shares by artists Pire Sova and Netti Nüganen. The artists use their bodies to create prints, and the resulting works are then offered as shares in a spontaneous auction that mimics the techniques used in livestock auctions. Through this intervention, the artists question to what extent the body and its representations are property. What happens to our understanding of the body in the process of the exchange economy—when we begin to interpret it in terms of ownership, exchange, and circulation?

Participating artists: Angela Maasalu, Dorota Gawęda, Eglė Kulbokaitė, Eva Gold
Performance: Pire Sova, Netti Nüganen
Curator: Triin Metsla
Producer: Mailis Timmi
Graphic design: Sonia Ruus
roam projects e. V. team: Kristen Rästas, Marie Mergler, Maria Kallau

Exhibition dates: September 9–26, 2026
Opening & Performance: September 9, 6–9 pm,
Performance starts at 7 pm
Opening hours: Thu–Fri, 4–7 pm, Sat, 2–5 pm and by appointment

Venue: roam projects e. V. (in collaboration with Tütar Gallery), Lindenstraße 91, 10969 Berlin
Entry at the back corner of the building facing W. Michael Blumenthal Akademie des Jüdischen Museums Berlin.

Supporters:
Estonian Cultural Endowment, Estonian Ministry of Culture, Embassy of Estonia in Berlin, Tütar Gallery

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