2025
Lagos
Berlin, Germany

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The character of the Impermeable man represents the contemporary plastic individual who, in an effort to protect himself, chooses isolation. This figure embodies a human condition marked by the denial of sensory and emotional contact: nothing goes in, nothing comes out. Just as a raincoat prevents water from touching the skin, this symbolic layer also blocks stimuli, emotions, and even the desire for connection. 

 

Contemporary psychology distinguishes two archetypes: the being who armors himself against the world, refusing to be penetrated by experience; and the one who, locked within himself, has lost the ability to project outward. Both coexist within an invisible boundary, defined by a second skin that separates them from others and from themselves. 

 

These individuals tend to be deeply destructive and self-destructive, often as a consequence of their lack of empathy. Their emotional disconnection not only prevents them from forming bonds but also fuels latent violence. This is where the world suffers today—with multiple flashpoints of war igniting across the planet. One of the characters—biting into a B-2 bomber—symbolically embodies this bottled-up rage, this incapacity for connection that leads to destruction. 

 

Moreover, these beings bare their teeth as a primitive gesture of defense or threat. That is why nearly all the figures in this series display visible teeth: as a warning, a stifled scream, or an animal trace in the face of fear, evoking vulnerability. 

This body of work brings together painting and drawing, in an attempt to make visible the translucent barrier that has become part of our daily lives—a plastic skin that, far from protecting us, has silently shaped our ways of feeling, inhabiting, and existing.