Hidden systems

"Hidden Systems" navigates the intersection between the human body and architectural structure, where space becomes anatomy and anatomy becomes infrastructure.

Urban conduits, locks, windows and pipelines intertwine to form hybrid beings: part person, part city, revealing the internal mechanics that quietly sustain life, channels carrying light, breath, memory and movement.

These works position the viewer at a threshold where domestic interiors echo inner worlds, and the engineered systems of the built environment mirror the fragile architectures of human existence.

Private Architecture (Past)

Pipework Madonna (Study)

In "Pipework Madonna," a female figure composed of pipes and conduits stands like a contemporary relic: a body that is also a system. Her structure of channels and flows evokes both vulnerability and resilience, as if she carries water, warmth and memory through an engineered network. The flame above her head transforms this infrastructure into a living vessel, suggesting a city that breathes through its pipes and a person whose inner currents form part of a wider urban organism.

"Mapped Sculpture" imagines the female body as a terrain shaped by infrastructures, measurements and layered cartographies. Its contours become a living map: streets and rivers trace the skin, while metallic measuring bands impose a logic of standardisation and control. Through this fusion of anatomy and urban design, the work reveals how identity is marked, regulated and navigated, where personal history intersects with societal grids and inherited systems.

The cartographic texture evokes both memory and geography, turning the figure into a city whose pathways are at once intimate and collective. The recurring "90" engravings signal the pressures placed on the female form by cultural norms and aesthetic expectations. Building on the wider concerns of Network Bodies, the series deepens the artist’s investigation into corporeality and environment, grounding the body’s contours in the cartographic memory of the landscape that shaped her early life.

Bathyscape (Study)

"Bathyscape" stages an encounter between outer armour and inner life. A metallic face fused with an industrial access port reveals a miniature city glowing behind a vent-like opening: an intimate world sheltered within a hard, corroded shell. The work evokes a psychological passage between exterior rigidity and interior warmth, transforming mechanical structures into metaphors of memory, identity and concealed emotional architecture.

A hybrid organism emerges: part industrial mask, part architectural portal. Behind the cold steel facade lies a labyrinth of towers, stairways and small houses: not geography but memory, a terrain of private rituals, subconscious structures and the hidden systems that sustain a person.