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2004-present | Human Dilatations
The body as constructed surface
Human Dilatations approaches the human body as a constructed visual field. Each image emerges from the stratification of hundreds of photographs of the same subject, assembled until the figure no longer corresponds to a single instant, but to the total time of its construction.
The portrait shifts from registration to distillation: duration becomes image.
Fragment and Continuity
The architecture of the figure
Observed from a distance, the figure appears as a coherent whole. Moving closer, the surface opens and destabilises. Skin, texture, and anatomical micro-variations expand until fragments of the body become autonomous visual territories.
Proximity does not resolve the image. It displaces it.
Latent Scale
The image as territory
Although presented in defined formats, each work contains a density of detail that exceeds its physical scale. The image holds a latent dimension that can be traversed.
The Video-Zoom works move across the photographic surface, revealing structures normally imperceptible and transforming fragments of the body into visual landscapes.
Video-Zoom from the artwork
mth241023_239ph, 2023 (Monolith)
Human Dilatations
Selected works
1.0 mth020615_263ph, 2015 (Monolith)
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mth041216_264ph, 2016 (Monolith)
1.2 mth201216_315ph, 2016 (Monolith)
1.3 mth171217_6ph, 2017 (Monolith)
1.4 mth101021_227-52ph, 2021 (Monolith)
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mth111121_155ph, 2021 (Monolith)
1.6 mth050123_107ph, 2023 (Monolith)
1.7 mth241023_239ph, 2023 (Monolith)
1.9 Video-Zoom -> mth010222_427ph, 2022 (Monolith)
1.10 th150718_801ph_3, 2018 (The Hug)
1.11 th050519_16vd_Ø1, 2019 (The Hug)
1.12 mth010222_427ph, 2022 (Monolith)
1.13 hd090313_297ph, 2013
1.14 th_220117_476ph, 2013 (The Hug)
1.01.11.21.31.41.51.61.71.81.91.101.111.121.13
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Human Dilatations comprises 125 photographic works and 17 video works developed between 2004 and the present.
Complete archive available upon request.
Project Statement
Human Dilatations unfolds through three interconnected subsets: [...]
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Human Dilatations, Monolith, and The Hug, each exploring different configurations of the human figure.
Each work is constructed from the assembly of approximately 200 to more than 800 photographs, first organised in the artist’s notebooks as preparatory studies and then recomposed into a single image. Preparatory collage study, notebook
Image Size | 39.7 × 60.7 cm
Sheet Size | 51 × 71.5 cm
#001_clg310325_84ph-th150718_801ph_1-2-3, 2018 (The Hug)
The photograph no longer corresponds to an instant, but to the time required to produce it.
The series approaches the body as a perceptual field shaped by accumulation, distortion, and time. Through the progressive displacement of the face and the expansion of physical mass, the figure shifts away from portraiture toward a more primary condition: a presence that precedes role, narrative, and codified identity.
The works are presented in two exhibition formats, medium and large, reinforcing the perceptual shift between distance and proximity.
Fine art print. Medium format
Image Size | 155 × 109 cm
Sheet Size | 160 × 111.8 cm
Triptych | th150718_801ph_1-2-3 , 2018 (The Hug)
The Video-Zoom works extend this condition, traversing the image and revealing structures that remain latent in the print.
Video-Zoom
Triptych | th150718_801ph_1-2-3 , 2018 (The Hug)
A further body of works transfers the same constructive logic into the moving image. Composed from fragments recorded at different moments and subsequently brought into a single visual unity, these works make perceptible that the figure emerges from multiple temporalities rather than from a linear recording. What initially appears as an almost photographic image gradually reveals itself through minimal vital signals: breath, muscular tension, the tremor of a hand, the expansion and contraction of the torso. Movement manifests through subtle thresholds, yet it is enough to disclose the composite nature of presence. As in the photographic works, the subject derives from the assembly of multiple viewpoints and discontinuous recordings. Here, however, the form does not resolve into a fixed surface: it remains in a state of continuous activation, where visual compactness and internal variation coexist.
th050519_20vd_Ø2, 2019 (0'30" excerpt)
video 8K Ultra HD, colour
00:02:04 in loop
The Hug, Human Dilatations
Within the series: Human Dilatations develops figures in which proportions are altered and the face progressively dissolves; Monolith isolates the body into a vertical, static configuration; The Hug introduces a relational structure in which multiple bodies merge into a single form.