Corpopendente/Selfie (2025)

dyptich. Tapioca-based bioplastic, fabric, oil pastels, acrylic; oil and oil stick on canvas.

Presented as a diptych facing away from one another, Corpopendente and Selfie extend the artist’s investigation into the body as a mutable site of translation between data and flesh, surface and touch.

Corpopendente, made from tapioca-based bioplastic, fabric, oil pastels, and acrylic, takes on a sculptural form that seems to hover between the organic and the synthetic. Textured surfaces evoke decay and regeneration, gesturing towards digital images as they circulate, erode, dissolve. Opposite it, Selfie—an abstract painting in oil and oil stick—renders the body through colour and gesture, tracing a porous threshold between self-representation and self-erasure.

In dialogue yet turned away from one another, the two works reflect on the conditions under which bodies are seen, captured, and remade across technological, biological, and affective registers. Together, they propose a choreography of translation: the body as data, as pigment, as residue in perpetual processes of change and transfiguration.