This installation questions the limits of the securitized body, and the possibility of an inner refuge in the face of the contemporary world’s fascist political drift.

In a time marked by somatic precarity, I would like to propose softness, permeability, and shared interiority. 

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Neither narrative nor characters inhabit the piece : only a body extended to the scale of the space, at once shelter, membrane, and organism. ​Here, the body is not defined by its appearance or by the social norms that constrain it; it is experienced as a somatic drift, a somatopolitical crossing where the body becomes a territory of emancipation.

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The work approaches calm not as tranquillity but as a morphogenetic force in which forms exist only through movement. It was entirely made with paper mâche and paint.    

The Balsamic Powers of Infinite Calm proposes a retreat where matter itself becomes refuge, breath, and an act of resistance.

 

Here, retreating does not mean isolating oneself but creating a living and sensorial territory where freedom emerges from within.​ This artwork was inspired by the quote “the balsamic powers of infinite calm” from Bachelard’s book “Poetics of Space”.