Open Fracture I (2026)

In Open Fracture, Plaza approaches the body as a territory inhabited by tension between consciousness, gesture, and matter. The figure does not appear as a stable unity, but as a fragmented mass that embodies a state of uncertainty —the moment preceding a decision, when moving forward implies exposure without the guarantee of resolution.

The body, compressed and deformed, is constructed through a cubist fragmentation that does not function as a stylistic device, but as a perceptual mechanism. Anatomy loses its descriptive role and becomes a site of friction, where identity and action separate without fully dissolving. The work does not describe a specific psychological conflict, but a physical condition: the experience of inhabiting a body traversed by contradictory forces.

The composition introduces visual interferences that disrupt the relationship between thought and gesture, suggesting a point of rupture in which decision emerges as an open fracture. Rather than offering a conclusion or certainty, the work inhabits a threshold —that instant in which choosing means, simultaneously, advancing and doubting.

Within the Inhabit series, Open Fracture deepens the idea of the body as a vulnerable and exposed space, where authenticity does not manifest through coherence or closure, but through the capacity to sustain fracture without sealing it.

Series: Inhabit

Technique: Charcoal sticks, charcoal pencils, graphite pencils, and oil pastels

Support: Arches Cold pressed 300 GSM 100% cotton paper

Size: 121,9 x 91,4 CM | 48 x 36"

Date: January 2026

Location: Sydney (Australia)