The human body is not merely a biological entity; it is a battlefield where political, moral, and religious discourses converge. Corpus Prohibitum — “The Forbidden Body” — holds a mirror to this contested terrain, exploring the individual’s desires, fragility, and struggle for existence within the invisible networks of oppressive regimes.

This exhibition tells the stories of bodies fighting to exist within societies encircled by prohibitions, taboos, and dogmas. The artist examines how the individual becomes estranged from their own body, desires, and identity, as social norms woven from religious morality, political propaganda, and traditional gender roles transform the body into a scene of crime.

Otherness, exclusion, and marginalization form the core of this narrative. Each figure appears as a being trapped in invisible cells imposed by society — breathing, yet unable to speak. These cells are both metaphorical and physical “cages” — sometimes turning into walls, sometimes into gazes, sometimes into toxic intimacies that masquerade as love.

Through the use of baroque light, dramatic composition, and a figurative language, the artist collides the aesthetics of historical sacred representation with the traumatic reality of the present. Thus, the body is no longer the icon of sin, but of existence itself.

Corpus Prohibitum invites us to reconsider the sacred, political, and erotic meanings of the body in an age of prohibition — a contemporary iconography that questions where personal freedom, intimacy, and boundaries begin and end.