corpus res

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In Corpus Res, the body becomes a vulnerable lens for examining how cultural bias is built into everyday objects. Mounted directly to the wall on industrial steel brackets, these floating, life-sized figures mimic the presentation of institutional museum artifacts. Their broken, classical silhouettes give the illusion of something timeless and precious. However, a closer look exposes an entirely synthetic reality: the surfaces are cast from contemporary construction scraps, showing raw textures of foam, glue, screws, and digital fabrication lines. Each hollow torso acts as a container holding the potential for critical reconsideration. By forcing an encounter with these highly mediated forms, Corpus Res challenges our cultural obsession with authentic objects while confronting our passive acceptance of the forces that design our world.