Untitled, 2025
This work explores the politics of the body within systems of power – how individuals are regulated, instrumentalised, and repurposed to serve agendas beyond their own. While rooted in the context of war, the project extends to broader structures: governments, institutions, and markets that reduce human lives to strategic assets.
Inspired by Michel Foucault’s theory of biopolitics, the project investigates how bodies are disciplined, categorised, and stripped of autonomy. A 3D scanning technique known as photogrammetry – commonly used in mapping and surveying – is employed here to reconstruct fragments of the human body. These digital scans are printed directly onto nine aluminium sheets, then riveted into a single shield with a handle. The result evokes both armour and submission – protection and control.
The image appears scarred, almost melting – visually echoing the erosion of agency and identity under regimes of surveillance, violence, and extractive logic. The work critiques how most of us are positioned within systems not of our making: bodies deployed, consumed, or discarded depending on their perceived utility.
Combining technical experimentation (photogrammetry, printing on metal) with philosophical inquiry, the project situates the body as a contested site – between resistance and compliance, visibility and erasure, protection and exposure.