It is a project about body, movement and immateriality, generated through a process of
digitalization of the action, which then became a digitally reproducible sequence.
In this process the body was fragmented and then, confronted directly by the machine,
capturing peculiarities and marks such as scars, scabs, moles and wounds, as well as other
elements that were foreign to the body but somehow they were affecting it inside at that
moment, exposing its intimacy, fragility and weakness, but also its ability to heal.
This exercise also gives the opportunity to observe the body from the distance and even
with detachment, in its fragmentation it has become foreign to the image of a covered
totality that used to be there before.
In the end the result is an immaterial body, deformed and exposed, an intimate body made
public, converted into a digital file easily multiplied and reproducible even simultaneously
and with multiple possibilities of being exposed. A file of the body in motion frozen right in
the act, to later grant it the movement again, but this time artificially through the electronic
processes of a machine.
I thought of this project as a form of relation between digitality and corporality (as a
manifestation of physicality), in which we see ourselves existing in both stages of reality,
and also as a way to capture, metaphorically, a sentiment of been trapped in a state of
physical isolation, but moving through a digital space.
Due to the recent situation all around the world, we find ourselves experiencing, through
different processes of self-isolation, an unnatural physical distance from the others, leading
us to look for other methods of connection in order to satisfy a natural human need for
interaction. The digital development of platforms and mediums has been around for a while,
but now more than ever, we are able to see the importance and complexities of this
intangible reality in which we also exist, we live in, it is an extension of ourselves. The current context has accentuated how evidently linked our two realities are, not only in an
individual level but also in a global scale.
It might be the moment to think of this digitality as part of our reality just as we do when
thinking about a physical space, and not only as a secondary or supplementary place, since
it has, already, the capacity to affect our lives in visible and tangible ways.