This installation functions as a forensic study of the fragmented identity under the weight of cumulative and systemic trauma. The work features a series of portraits subjected to specific structural interventions: ballistic entry points, cranial ruptures, and the use of nails to forcefully fix ideological or spiritual signifiers in place. These static images serve as a topography of suffering, where each individual bears a distinct mark of rejection, displacement, or forced adherence to a principle. Central to the work is an automated rubber appendage that strikes the images with rhythmic persistence, acting as a mechanical surrogate for the corrosive effect of time. This repetitive motion does not seek to create a spectacle of violence, but rather to document a process of chronological attrition. The work interrogates the state of permanent temporary pain, where the immediate shock of the strike masks a more profound, unperceived mortality. Through this interaction between the fixed wound and the repetitive impact, the project examines how the self is systematically reshaped by forces of erasure, resulting in a state where the subject becomes an anonymous record of its own ongoing decay.
This work does not offer release.
It keeps the wound open.
It holds the moment where pain becomes habit
and identity forms around it.
It keeps the wound open.
It holds the moment where pain becomes habit
and identity forms around it.
