PLUNDERED GARDEN

Plundered GardenPlundered Garden stems from a preliminary process of photographic deconstruction in which the artist's naked body is subjected to movement, cropping, and layering. Starting from black-and-white self-portraits traversed by motion blurs and transparencies, the anatomy loses its literal unity to transform into fragmented strata, dense shadows, and eroded reliefs.

When translated onto the canvas, the work immerses itself in a nocturnal, gravitational atmosphere. Against a backdrop of deep blacks and slate blues, folds of flesh and joints emerge in earthy ochres, grayish whites, and muted yellows like a plundered geography shaped by the passage of time. Far from an idyllic landscape, this stripped-down garden speaks of trace, extraction, and the silent resilience of the body-territory once deprived of its surface.