Restless Bodies

"Restless Bodies" is a series of paintings that explores various forms resembling the human body. Some of these figures embody feminine or masculine traits, while others appear as masses crawling forward. However, they all share movement: they breathe, they shift, and they live. These bodies are not static—they pulse with presence.

Influenced by the study of body horror, my aim is to transform the unsettling into beauty. I seek to reveal the deeper connection between these forms and our most intimate human instincts. Despite their strangeness, we see ourselves in them. As a species, we have continuously mutated to become what we are today, and these restless bodies attempt to capture that evolving process.

The series also engages with the posthuman idea—not of merging with machines, but of a species undergoing transformation where the organic retains traces of the artificial. These bodies mutate, reflecting an evolution that subtly integrates the metallic or technological, without fully becoming mechanical. In this sense, the posthuman is not just a fusion with machines but a redefinition of the body and identity, as we adapt to survive.

As Rosi Braidotti notes in The Posthuman:

"The posthuman does not signify the end of humanity, but rather a radical reconfiguration of the body and identity, constantly redefined through the interrelation of the human and non-human."

Through these works, I explore this intersection—bodies in motion that reflect both a potential future and the ongoing, mutating process of human existence.