Foreign Body is a series of oil paintings that examines the body as a site of intrusion, mediation, and psychological estrangement. The title references both the medical term for an object not naturally belonging in the body and the experience of dissociation—of feeling alien to one’s own physical form.

The paintings juxtapose close-up fragments of flesh with drapery, plastics, medical instruments, and mechanical elements. These materials are rendered with careful realism while remaining spatially ambiguous, producing an atmosphere that is simultaneously intimate and unsettling. The body is neither whole nor fully legible; instead, it appears altered, intervened upon, and suspended between vulnerability and control.

Foreign Body reflects on contemporary anxieties surrounding mortality, medical dependence, and the desire to preserve life through technological means. Rather than presenting technology as purely salvational or threatening, the work lingers in the tension between care and invasion, familiarity and estrangement, asking how embodiment is reshaped when survival is increasingly mediated by external systems.