01.   Compulsive Collection v.5: Edition Surface

   COMPULSIVE Collection V.5 is the fifth volume in the ongoing COMPULSIVE series — a body of work exploring the aesthetics of repetition, discipline, and obsession through the lens of human anatomy.
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  Developed in partnership with the Béjart Ballet Lausanne, this 740-page publication examines the anatomy of dancers, with a precise focus on the back as the central site of movement, endurance, and expression.The project investigates how the back functions as a structural archive of choreography — a living record of gesture, training, and tension.

   Within the practice of ballet, the back is both invisible and essential. It sustains posture, projects emotion, and mediates the balance between strength and fragility.
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   By isolating and documenting this part of the body, V.5 shifts the viewer’s attention from the visible performance to the mechanics and memory behind it. The publication becomes a compulsive act of archiving — capturing not just static anatomy but the residues of motion. The work challenges how movement can be preserved, translated, and experienced in printed form.

   COMPULSIVE Collection V.5 functions as both document and object — an attempt to archive something inherently unarchivable: movement.