Work in Progress: From the Childhood Room…: The Playground

A scenography residency in collaboration with Decoratelier

When we played hide-and-seek, I always wanted to be found…

As a child, I simply played by the rules. Returning to these games as an adult, the same rules begin to feel different. A wonderland emerges in between temporary fantasy and everyday reality.
During this residency, I am researching spatial situations as thresholds: places where the audiences enter, cross, hesitate and explore. I use the rules of childhood games as a dramaturgical language, shaping movement, attention, and the relations between bodies, objects and space.

Could you invite me into your childhood room next time?

I would like to meet the first toy you remember.

What was their name?

Are they still with you?

Haolin Huang (1997, they/them) is a multidisciplinary Chinese artist based in Brussels, working across photography, video, performance, theatre, sculpture, and digital media. Their practice is grounded in exploration and research, shaped by a psychological inquiry into human duality within social and cultural structures.