Asja Baii
visual artist 




Preserving
Urban Skin, Human Form
Postfloral






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Urban Skin, Human Form

2022-2023 
Photography series


Urban Skin, Human Form explores the relationship between vulnerability and protection, the private and the public self, and the identities we construct to navigate the outside world.

The naked human body suggests a state of exposure and intimacy, while monumental brutalist architecture evokes the armour we develop in response to society and its expectations. Yet this armour is not necessarily a disguise or a false identity. It can offer safety, comfort and a sense of belonging.

Through the juxtaposition of organic bodies and sculptural architectural forms, the series considers the boundaries between our inner and outer worlds. Structures that might appear cold or alien become places of imagined shelter, while the vulnerable body is both exposed and protected.

Rather than opposing an authentic self to a constructed one, the work explores how these different states coexist, and how our need for protection shapes the ways we inhabit and present ourselves to the world.