CORPUS TERRAE.
Unique artist's Book.

Corpus Terrae binds drawings of landscapes torn from the earth into a single volume. The work consists of twenty-six original plates composed of materials, marks, and gestures layered like unstable geologies. These layers do not accumulate toward a structure or a function; they coexist in states of tension, interference, and mutual erosion.
Each plate develops its own geological configuration. Layers may blend, repel, fracture, or peel away from one another, allowing fragments of adjacent materialities to surface within the thickness of the drawing itself. The page is no longer a support, but a depth in which matter behaves according to its own internal logic.

In Corpus Terrae, drawing is not a representational act. It is not a tool for description, narration, or projection. Instead, it operates as a process of exposure: a tearing of the surface that reveals a space that cannot be fully grasped or stabilized. The act of drawing becomes analogous to excavation, where each gesture uncovers something that resists interpretation as much as it invites it.
The work unfolds as a form of introspection that cannot be domesticated. Landscapes emerge not as images of a place, but as manifestations of a wandering mind—displacements of perception, memory, and material intuition. Like a plough cutting through the earth’s mantle, each drawing desecrates the plane of the page, bending it into a field of indeterminacy.

Corpus Terrae does not propose a concept to be understood or a system to be decoded. It exposes drawing as a site of radical uncertainty, where meaning is suspended and where knowledge remains fragmentary, tactile, and unresolved.

Expose - In Corpus Terrae, exposure is not the revelation of hidden information, but the opening of an irreducible mystery. The drawings expose the limits of rationality, representation, and control by confronting the viewer with a material process that refuses synthesis. Here, exposure is not explanatory but existential: it brings the viewer into contact with the opacity of matter and the instability of perception, without offering orientation or closure.