James Mathison’s work does not approach the human figure as representation, but as a question. His interest lies in the condition that defines it: encounters and ruptures, the tensions between identity and transformation, the traces that time imprints on matter. In his sculptures, the body is conceived as a territory, a cartography where memory, emotion and thought converge. Mathison fragments it, reconstructs it, displaces it, in order to reframe its status as a space of relationships rather than a closed form. The fragment, in his practice, is not a sign of loss but of knowledge: a sensitive archaeology that links past and present, myth and experience, the ancestral and the contemporary. His work offers a reflection on the symbolic dimension of the body, a passage between the physical and the metaphorical and, with it, on the very nature of the human as a representation in constant transformation.