Body Modification I

The research addresses skin and body. Body Modification, as an art that resorts to the body in situations of suffering, has an extreme means of fighting against the difficulties of living. The skin is attacked in an attempt to reach the most inaccessible depths of the self. Today, it is important to acquire the ability to continuously redefine ourself. The goal becomes one of self-representation in society, where the depiction of one's own image tends to prevail over everything. Visually, through the medium of photography, the body is conceived as a series of fragments that can be recomposed at will and hybridised: the sign, the trace, the cut, are intended to mutate the image. Taking the various parts of the body, already modified and marked by the tattoo and the cut, is recompose, with several elements of different individuals, creating an apparent formal and aesthetic unity that in reality is not one but many parts. The scarred and wounded body is a place of spatial experimentation, it is shattered and recomposed, it presents itself in the form of directions, elements that overlap, intersect, trace relationships with the surface, reveal themselves as other than what they actually are. The attempt communicates the sense of the human condition in the face of a destabilising reality.