The Smell of Boundaries (2025) pauses visitors upon entering the exhibition space, compelling a moment of reflection. It explores the visceral reactions evoked by dirt and cleanliness, responses not solely grounded in rationality, but in deeply embedded social and biological instincts. Dirt is something we are conditioned to be repulsed by, not necessarily through rational understanding, but through deep-seated social and biological instincts. Cleanliness, beyond hygiene, becomes a ritual that purifies and separates spaces from contamination. Drawing from Édouard Glissant’s concept in The Right to Opacity, which rejects rigid borders in favor of fluid exchanges, this work reveals how decay defies containment. It seeps through divisions. Dirt, sweat, and rot serve as reminders that borders are not only seen or felt. They are inhaled and carried within us.