What Touches the Body Does Not Disappear

Taking Berlin as a fluid urban structure, this project examines how bodies are gradually shaped and reconfigured through migration. Beginning with portraiture, the body is treated not as identity but as a surface where structural forces accumulate. Figures are presented upside down, destabilizing habitual modes of viewing, while irreversible interventions—burning and scraping—mark both body and surrounding space. Fragmented letter forms appear as damaged traces of origin, resisting legibility and resolution. Rather than depicting conflict or resistance, the work focuses on slow adaptation within systems, where body and structure continuously intersect, wear against one another, and persist in a state of suspended transformation.