Red Territory
“Red Territory” plunges us into color’s most visceral wavelength. Between blood and fire, warning and desire, red bypasses thought to grip the body directly.
Red Territory
2022 -2025
Red Territory explores how the color red transforms urban spaces into immersive sensory experiences. Through photographs of natural elements (like fallen flowers), weathered surfaces, paint, clothing, and industrial objects – even isolated red light – the series is a study on our raw, bodily encounter with the color before our minds label it as danger, passion, or revolution.
Red isn’t just seen; it acts. In the city, red forces itself into our awareness. Think of stop signs, alarms, or the flash of a dress – semiotically, red screams attention, danger, energy, luck or desire. Like blood or fire, it triggers instinct: raising pulses, tightening muscles. This series shows how that primal impact works: red shapes our sense of space physically, through our eyes and bodies, not just through thought.
Merleau-Ponty’s idea of the world’s “flesh” fits perfectly here. Red blurs the line between us (the viewer) and the object. Is the red on the wall, or is it an experience happening between us and the wall? These photos live in that ambiguous space – where color becomes a force felt even by the blind, vibrating through the nervous system.
Ultimately, red communicates through presence. It bypasses symbols and speaks directly to our senses. From ancient warriors to buried pigments of renewal, red has always been humanity’s visceral dialect. As both life-giver (blood) and destroyer (fire), it carries our deepest fears and desires. This series catalogues it as a shared language in the urban landscape – a foundation of meaning built on feeling, not just thinking.