08/17/2026
INTERNAL COLLISION | RIM
Installation by RIM
INTERNAL COLLISION
I grew up with my parents’ BMW 315, a car they had bought new and which later became my first car. Long before I understood the automobile as an object of engineering, architecture or design, it was already part of my personal landscape. It represented childhood, movement, family and eventually independence. Years later, on December 31, 2016, a car accident radically altered that relationship. INTERNAL COLLISION brings these different layers of memory into the same structure. The automobile becomes both an object of origin and an object of rupture. Art, here, operates as autobiography.
The damaged vehicle is transformed from an object of destruction into sculptural matter, a wounded machine reconstructed as structural memory. Concrete masses, black cables and mechanical components pe*****te, support and restrain the body of the car. The cables operate as multiple systems simultaneously: repair, intervention, transmission and mechanical dependency, but also the externalization of an internal nervous system under stress. Machine, body and memory begin to occupy the same architecture.
INTERNAL COLLISION is therefore not a representation of a single accident. It compresses childhood memory, attachment to the automobile, physical impact and reconstruction into one object. The BMW becomes an autobiographical body whose deformation carries several moments of a life simultaneously. An external machine becomes internal architecture. A personal history becomes structure.
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