Felix Jackson, Headway, 2025, installation from year-long performance (2024), worn socks, pen on paper, dimensions variable.
Gallery 3
Headway
Juno Felix
Headway is a large-scale installation formed from the remnants of a year-long performance by Felix Jackson. Throughout 2024, Felix wore one new white sock each day on alternating feet. By the end of the year, 366 socks had been collected, each marked with the traces of daily use. The socks are presented in chronological order, forming a calendar of the year—each one marking a day lived and recorded. Next to each one sits a small slip of paper, a daily reflection recording what Felix did or felt that day. Together, they create both a private and collective archive, an accumulation of lived days.
The title Headway refers to gradual, forward progression. The alternating feet form a rhythm of steps, echoing the steady momentum that arises from simply showing up each day. For Felix, the work became a reminder of existence. As someone who forgets much of daily life, the socks served as proof: I was here, I walked, I lived.
At its core, Headway explores life as performance. Felix sees performance art as inseparable from the everyday, a space where the boundaries between art and life blur. While daily life often requires masking or reshaping the self to fit in, performance offers the opportunity to test what it means to be the truest version of oneself. Through Headway, the ordinary act of walking is transformed into a quiet declaration of presence and persistence.