The Exiled Body
2025 - ongoing
Oil painting on wood
The Exiled Body is a series of works that unfolds around an imaginary figure: the soy-man a body that no longer coincides with itself, but instead disperses, hybridizes, and drifts through shifting conditions of belonging. This figure is not merely symbolic, but a living and vulnerable body that embodies a silent form of migration: rooted, yet constantly displaced.
The soy-man functions as a self-portrait, though not in a conventional sense. It does not reproduce resemblance, but rather translates an inner state. It reflects a subjectivity that perceives itself as cultivated, transplanted, and continuously transformed. The artist’s body thus becomes a site where botanical, cultural, and emotional memories intertwine, overlap, and sediment over time.
Within the series, the body appears fragmented: isolated limbs, interrupted surfaces, and forms dispersed in space. This fragmentation is not simply a rupture, but a condition of existence. The images evoke a tension between integrity and dispersion, between presence and absence.
The Exiled Body thus constructs a corporeal landscape in which human and vegetal, intimate and collective, rootedness and uprootedness coexist without resolution. The works do not seek synthesis, but rather inhabit a threshold, that of a body which, even in its fragmentation, continues to search for forms of belonging.