La trama del corpo

The body is suffering.
The body is tissue that breaks down and recreates itself.
The body is what we are and it tells us.
The body is our container to shape.
The body is movement.
The body is the enemy.
The body is breathing matter.
The body is heaviness.
The body is a passage between inside and outside.
The body is a plastic and sensitive instrument
of non-verbal communication.
Movement, dance heals and destroys.
Conscious movement can be a tool
therapy.
Movement makes the projection of
emotions in space through the body.
Healing that the expressive movement of
Dance favors the restoration of capacity
to perceive themselves as an integral whole.

< to my hand, to my ear?
Where am I in this face, in its features,
in his tracks,
in the two obliquities and in his fears?
Who am I in the contours of this
mouth that says “I”? >>
Jean-Luc Nancy, Daniela Calabrò - Dario Giuliano (ed.),
The body in art, Milan, Mimesi/Imago, 2014, p.16

What happens to a body that has been loved too much?
The vision of it changes.
The look modifies it without actually doing so
what is present before the eyes.
the body changes shape, widens, shrinks, i
volumes are amplified.
When a body stops you love it less, the pain
takes over.
The pain starts from a small part of the body and yes
branches out devouring everything.

“The texture of the body” was created to try to explain the sensation
of rejection of a body that has been loved too much.
the project represents the relaxation of a sensation.
The cloth with the footprint represents the lightness of a body
abandoned, a body that no longer exists.
An empty and tired body.
The body is no longer me.
On the ground there is a recomposed body.
It is a deformed body, my gaze has modified my body
in my head and I rho represented.
The fragments appear to have just emerged from the earth.
It is a rebirth in the awareness of living in a body that
I no longer recognize, but I have to take care of, because that
body is my plot,
that body is me.

To create the project I started from one
technique invented and practiced by Arturo Martini, the
keramography, and I adapted it to my needs.
Cheramography is a printing technique
(intaglio) artistic, in which the matrix is ​​a piece
of engraved clay.
Since clay is a very fragile material, if
used as a matrix, it allows you to create a few
prints, mostly
more monotypes.
My project involves the union of a print of
body on brushed fabric that flows onto the
body mold without making casts of
it.
The presence of the body print on brushed fabric
represents the gray area before the abandonment of
it.
For the realization of the second part of the project, I adapted the keramography technique.

I started by creating a clay matrix, the size varies depending on the size
to the part of the body that I go to
to press.
After pressing, for example a foot, the
negative on clay where I intervene by modeling and emphasizing volumes.
Then I go to pour inside the negative
of the plaster.
After the catalyzation of the plaster I go to remove the positive from the matrix
clay, where I will then not be able to go and create another mold since the clay,
soft after it goes to print, it deforms
even more so by losing its original shape.
In the positive we will find a foot, which we have taken as an example, but deformed,
does not conform to normality that
we are used to seeing.
In addition, the almost imperceptible layer of clay, which however colors the plaster, gives
a sense of body extracted from
ground, as if someone had forgotten it there.
I've done this process for different parts of my body, so I have it
fragmented and then recomposed it.
The moment the body no longer respects what it was used to
mind deceives you.
By combining the body print and the recomposed fragments I wanted to create and make
see that thin line where the two bodies touch.
I wanted to create this sculpture to give a visible form to what
it happens in the mind of a person who has loved his own very much, perhaps too much
body.
You start to perceive your body as something it really isn't.