Collage, digital color print, 13 x 19 inches
Collage, digital color print, 13 x 19 inches
Collage, digital color print, 13 x 19 inches
Fantabulosas 11 January 2026 (Republic of Salò)
Power functions.
Finance. Law. Morality. Privilege.
The body merchandise.
Desire administered.
Violence procedural.
A grid institutional order.
Residue
Fragments
Waste
Excitation
Excrement
Blood
Tempus loquendi, tempus tacendi.
This work treats power not as ideology but as system. Authority appears as a set of functions rather than personalities: economic extraction, juridical enforcement, moral regulation, inherited privilege. Together they form a closed circuit in which governance collapses into consumption. The body is no longer a political subject but raw material—measured, exchanged, exhausted.
Exploitation is not an aberration within this system; it is its basic relation. Life is abstracted into usable force. Physical energy, time, and affect are rendered interchangeable. This abstraction is already violent. It reduces to output, surface, remainder.
Modern power refines this violence by organizing bodies rather than simply repressing them. Discipline replaces spectacle. The grid—pedagogical, bureaucratic, architectural—renders life legible and compliant. Desire is not forbidden so much as managed. Permission becomes a tool of regulation. As choice expands, behavior contracts. Conformity intensifies.
What follows is not enclosure but circulation. Control operates through modulation, repetition, flow. There is no outside—only acceleration, interruption, waste. Desire circulates. Waste circulates. Violence circulates. When domination sheds its disguises, it appears as ritualized consumption. Obscenity is not excess here but disclosure.
The collage stages this logic spatially. A cinematic image exposes power stripped of euphemism, reduced to appetite and procedure. A silhouetted grid of signs stands in for institutional order—an abstract form that promises coherence while absorbing difference. Against this structure accumulates the detritus of city life: fragments, debris, what resists full assimilation.
What remains visible is not collapse but process.
Excitation produces waste.
Waste demands enforcement.
Enforcement renews excitation.
The round of manias.
The round of excrement.
The round of blood.
This is not decline.
It is circulation.