Created during the first months of the pandemic, Sinclair's project emerged from the sudden, radical shift in how people related to one another. Working entirely through video calls, she directed a series of intimate performances by collaborators in twelve different cities, each exploring a specific gesture of connection — reaching out a hand, leaning close to speak, embracing.
The resulting footage was edited into a four-channel video installation that juxtaposed these gestures of intimacy with the technological apparatus that mediated them — the screen borders, the compression artifacts, the slight delays that made every interaction feel simultaneously close and impossibly distant.
Sinclair's work captured something essential about the pandemic experience: the way digital connection could sustain relationships while simultaneously reminding us of the physical proximity we had lost. The piece avoided sentimentality, finding in the glitches and limitations of video technology a visual language for the emotional complexity of the moment.
The project was first shown as a virtual exhibition before being installed in physical gallery spaces, a trajectory that mirrored the broader cultural movement from isolation back toward shared physical experience.
