Starting from the feeling of being pushed backwards by recent reactionary backlashes, Moving Backwards explores resistance practices, combining post-modern choreography and urban dance with guerrilla techniques and elements of queer underground culture.

The film installation with five performers from diverse dance backgrounds complicates the notion of backwards movements and their temporal and spatial meaning. Parts of the walks, solos and group dances are carried out backwards, others are digitally reversed, creating doubt and ambiguities for the installation on the whole.

The film is inspired by Women of the Kurdish guerrillas, who wore their shoes the wrong way round to walk from one way in the snowy mountains to the other. This tactic saved their lives. It seems as if you are walking backwards but actually you are walking forwards. And the other way around.

This work was first exhibited in the Swiss Pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 2019. 

Edition 3/5 is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Arts, United States. 

Edition 4/5 is in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. 

Edition 5/5 is in the collection of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.