trans Magazine #46 - Spolia gender the normal body

the normal body

But even with such bearings and signposts

Drawing inspiration from famed Italian architectural and design magazines

a red-painted table become loaded with symbolic weight

Billy Odidi

trans Magazine #46 - Spolia gender the normal bodySpolia absorb energy from an external force and deform elastically. As archeological tools at (de)construction sites, they form hidden testaments to political dependencies, ecosystem clashes, art in galleries, even office tower elevators. Input: strange simultaneity of icons that are immediate, available, and ready to be transformed. Output: remnants reorganized to serve architecture and its demands. We look back to the future and ahead to the past.