A Detox Chronicle
Size: 500 × 500 mm
Materials: Aluminium, Pigment, Watercolour, Paper
Year of work: 2025
Description:
A Detox Chronicle engages with the erosion of intimate bonds through the lens of visual fragmentation and material decay. The work examines the sociocultural mechanisms of emotional withdrawal, presenting intimacy not as a site of connection, but as a construct subject to disintegration and distortion. Drawing from postmodern theories of identity and alienation, the piece suggests that contemporary intimacy often collapses under the pressure of self-preservation and the fear of dissolution. Visually, the layered surface evokes the peeling strata of memory and affect, mirroring the ways in which modern individuals detach and retreat as a form of psychological self-cleansing. Through the aesthetics of corrosion and absence, the work poses a quiet resistance to the romanticization of intimacy in the age of hyper-fragmented subjectivity.