∆NTI/CØRPI

"We are nothing more than our body." — after Umberto Galimberti

The body as architecture. Repaired. Reinforced. Invaded. Compromised.

∆NTI/CØRPI assembles figures from incompatible parts. Flesh and transparent panel. Tissue and brass hardware. Crystal and bandage. X-ray and skin. Tubing where tubing shouldn't be. The materials refuse each other. The body has always been made of things that refuse each other — bone and fluid, nerve and void, what grows and what breaks down. This is not new. This is just more visible.

An antibody is the immune system's response to a foreign presence. It identifies the invader. Marks it. Attacks it. The organism tries to remain itself against what enters it. In this work the distinction collapses. The body is both host and invader. Organism and intervention. The apparatus is the body. The body is the apparatus. The question of where one ends stopped being answerable a long time ago.

Each figure is built incrementally. Accumulating the way damage accumulates. Layer on layer — until you can no longer identify what was original and what was added. Until the intervention becomes the body. Until the scar becomes the skin.

These are digital projections. Visions of possible physical installations. Sculptures that occupy space in the image before they can occupy it in the world. The incompatibility of the materials is the point. The body that refuses to be one thing. That is always already multiple. Always already compromised. Always already more than what it started as.

Our bodies are the archives of lost futures.