MEMBRANE
Photographic diptych

MEMBRANE

 2025
Photographic diptych, 80 × 120 cm each

The body becomes visible only through its own obstruction.

The photographic work *Membrane* isolates a central gesture within the broader *LINES OF CONTROL* series: the act of constructing a barrier that simultaneously conceals and defines the body. Positioned behind a self-made surface of tape, the figure appears only as a blurred silhouette — fragmented, distorted, and partially withdrawn from visibility.

The work shifts the focus from public intervention to perception itself. The tape, previously used to structure and disrupt urban space, becomes here a semi-transparent membrane that both protects and restricts. It marks a threshold where the body is no longer fully present, but not entirely absent either. Instead, it exists in a state of suspension — caught between exposure and concealment.

This tension reveals a key aspect of the series: control is not only imposed externally, but also produced through internalized gestures. The act of marking space becomes an act of self-limitation. The body participates in its own disappearance, constructing the very conditions that obscure it.

Rather than documenting an action, *Membrane* reflects on the image as a site of negotiation. Visibility is no longer given, but constructed — and simultaneously denied.

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PROJECT CONTEXT

Part of the long-term project LINES OF CONTROL, which investigates spatial regulation, visibility, and the relationship between the body and systems of control across video, installation, photography, and drawing.

In contrast to large-scale public interventions, this work condenses the logic of the series into a single image: the barrier becomes intimate, immediate, and self-directed.