work
POV
| category | Performance |
| subject | Political / Social, Nude, Human figure |
| tags | |
| minutes | 5 |
| seconds | 24 |
| year | 2022 |
POV
2022
Performance, variable duration: approximately 5 min
Performative object: elastic band
Video (colour, sound, 4K), duration: 5 min 24 sec 1/3
Fine Art print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth paper mounted on Dibond, 17 x 30 cm 1/3
A body trying to open itself, in the most intimate position it has ever assumed, in an encounter with its resistances. The stimulus given by a toxic introversion does not release a liquid pleasure, only the salty waste of an effort. Out of training, a trembling. Not resisting resistance is easy.
- plurale
“There is a man in a white room, lying on his back with his legs raised and knees bent. An elastic band resists the opening of his legs. The tension is visible, his thighs tremble in the attempt to embody the effort, then suddenly give way.
The man becomes a man once more.
The poetics of plurale develops from and through the body. Sight and its points branch out into opposing, contradictory, confident trajectories. The space of the body is symbolic, a bearer of the meaning of the world, which it translates into representational modes. Thus, what was once the surrealist act of becoming other turns realist, conscious, and for this very reason, political.
The gesture becomes part of an action that is necessarily activism. An activism of attempts and explorations rather than declarations. The potential value of the symbiosis between the one and the many becomes a statement: I am not a pleasure activist, but I want to be, I want to be able to be. This underscores a transformative approach to the self that questions the idea of absolute identity, instead rediscovering an identity composed of all the successive stages that occur over time through a personal construction grounded in the possibility and the will to change.
Thus, being other than oneself does not mean no longer being oneself; it means reaching a new form of possible representations of one’s identity. It reflects how transforming one's actions and positions corresponds to a transformation of the self and the world.”
- Mirco Marino
2022
Performance, variable duration: approximately 5 min
Performative object: elastic band
Video (colour, sound, 4K), duration: 5 min 24 sec 1/3
Fine Art print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth paper mounted on Dibond, 17 x 30 cm 1/3
A body trying to open itself, in the most intimate position it has ever assumed, in an encounter with its resistances. The stimulus given by a toxic introversion does not release a liquid pleasure, only the salty waste of an effort. Out of training, a trembling. Not resisting resistance is easy.
- plurale
“There is a man in a white room, lying on his back with his legs raised and knees bent. An elastic band resists the opening of his legs. The tension is visible, his thighs tremble in the attempt to embody the effort, then suddenly give way.
The man becomes a man once more.
The poetics of plurale develops from and through the body. Sight and its points branch out into opposing, contradictory, confident trajectories. The space of the body is symbolic, a bearer of the meaning of the world, which it translates into representational modes. Thus, what was once the surrealist act of becoming other turns realist, conscious, and for this very reason, political.
The gesture becomes part of an action that is necessarily activism. An activism of attempts and explorations rather than declarations. The potential value of the symbiosis between the one and the many becomes a statement: I am not a pleasure activist, but I want to be, I want to be able to be. This underscores a transformative approach to the self that questions the idea of absolute identity, instead rediscovering an identity composed of all the successive stages that occur over time through a personal construction grounded in the possibility and the will to change.
Thus, being other than oneself does not mean no longer being oneself; it means reaching a new form of possible representations of one’s identity. It reflects how transforming one's actions and positions corresponds to a transformation of the self and the world.”
- Mirco Marino
