the unlocatable 2026

The Unlocatable is a work of archival unmaking. Through large-scale adaptable collage and photographs, this work combines British Petroleum's archives, starting with the company’s first oil extraction in Iran 1908, with recent photographs of BP gas stations in New York taken by the artist. Torn, layered, and reconstructed image fragments assemble against warped scans of gridded cutting mats to form precarious spatial fields. Here, collage serves both as metaphor and methodology, making acts of extraction and displacement its form and content. Using unstable repositories and surfaces as sites of material inquiry, the work visually embeds histories of extraction, displacement, and petro-imperialism. The Unlocatable offers a tactile search for the archival shards of truths that can never be reassembled.

Exhibited at Microscope Gallery, NY, NY