Intrusion: An Inventory of Foreign Bodies
From a geological perspective, an intrusion involves magma infiltrating the fissures of existing rock formations and slowly solidifying. In my work, this role is assumed by mechanical mass. I treat the car as a corpus alienum—a foreign body forcibly wedged into the existing urban fabric, occluding its natural pores. I am fascinated by this moment of tension: when a foreign volume is compulsorily embedded within a tight architectural structure, fundamentally altering its geometry and character.
My gaze oscillates between two poles:
- Suppressed Presence: I track car hoods almost absorbed by the corners of walls, immobilized in narrow gaps where they have been squeezed and forced to coexist with the “dead zones” of architecture. This is a record of their total subordination to the city’s fabric.
- Expansiveness: I document masses that deliberately escape the edges of the frame. This movement beyond the boundaries of the photograph highlights their power, weight, and the impossibility of fully taming this alien mass within a limited urban space.
In both states, the car ceases to be a machine and becomes a surreal monument to everyday life. I document these solidified structures as evidence that reality, within its cracks, conceals forms that—though dead and foreign—have been permanently inscribed into the morphology of our environment.
