This video-installation questions the contemporary need for guidance related to one’s emotional life in the West. Oomes explores expressions of this social need and where it could possibly lead. He narrates a situation in which a search ends up at a highly commercial, but widespread, branch of the self-help industry. By combining textile elements from pop-up spaces related to this spiritual interest with visualisation techniques up for purchase. He aims to acknowledge a spiritual grey area in the West, and highlight a form of spirituality that can lead to a sceptical attitude toward the term.
