GOD OF FERTILITY

Installation, mixed media on paper, glass bulbs, circles 150×80 cm diameter, paintings 4 m × 210 cm

Installation, mixed media on paper, glass bulbs, circles 150×80 cm diameter, paintings 4 m × 210 cm

Installation, mixed media on paper, glass bulbs, circles 150×80 cm diameter, paintings 4 m × 210 cm

Installation, mixed media on paper, glass bulbs, circles 150×80 cm diameter, paintings 4 m × 210 cm

Installation, mixed media on paper, glass bulbs, circles 150×80 cm diameter, paintings 4 m × 210 cm

Installation, mixed media on paper, glass bulbs, circles 150×80 cm diameter, paintings 4 m × 210 cm

The project excavates the prehistoric archive of the phallus.Min/Khem/Khnum is not approached as religious symbol. It is analyzed as a biopolitical apparatus. The erect penis held in the left hand is not fertility. It is legislation. The flail in the upheld right arm is not agriculture. It is enforcement.In predynastic representation, the god does not create life. The god administers the border between life and excess. Reproduction is managed as state infrastructure. The body of the god is a public document, a decree carved in stone.The figure operates in two contradictory registers simultaneously: Khem as the god of reproduction – the management of bodies; Khnum as the creator of all things – the management of origins. The phallus and the potter’s wheel: two technologies of formation.The work refuses myth. It refuses ethnography. It positions the ancient icon as a prototype of contemporary power: the sovereign who does not govern through law, but through the regulation of generation itself.The project does not ask “what was worshipped?” It asks: what diagram of power is encoded in the gesture of a god who holds both sex and punishment in the same frame