A Lineage of Disqualified Knowledge (IV)

Through scanner glitches produced during acts of self-touch, the project reclaims a bureaucratic device as a tool for intimacy. The resulting images resist legibility, transforming the body into unstable evidence.

The project originates from the attempt to reclaim the scanner – a device historically tied to bureaucracy, control and evidential capture – as an instrument of pleasure and bodily proximity. During acts of masturbation, the scanner fails to stabilize the body it tries to record. Skin becomes vibration, repetition, interference and abstraction.

The resulting images exist between photograph and malfunction: unstable surfaces where body resists recognition. Rather than producing visibility, the scanner generates opacity. The 'corpus' appears fragmented, unreadable and continuously escaping capture from the apparatus.

Through these glitched scans, the work investigates the limits of photographic evidence and the relationship between technology, desire and perception. At the point of maximum proximity, the image collapses. What remains is not representation, but the trace of an encounter that cannot be fully possessed or resolved.
Against the contemporary regime of pornographic evidence – a system that demand the constant visibility and legibility of female bodies and experiences – the images insist on opacity. The body appears fragmented, unreadable and continuously escaping capture.