motus corporis
(from Latin: 'body movements’)
pigment on rag
various sizes
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installation shot, Rotterdam Photo, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2020
cicatrix, 2022
When the integrity of the body is breached, such as a wound, surgical or not, and when the sanctity of the skin is compromised and the internal organs are reached, a loss of innocence, purity, and wholeness takes hold. The outside gains access deep into the most inner sides, and like in any loss, a sadness takes over, a melancholy starts to linger, and a never again reaching state is beheld. A piety of some sort disappears, impossibly to achieve again.
And as this process is unavoidably witnessed by outsiders, a sacred guarded untold is exposed - barriers falling, cells pouring into the open, unhealable for the time. And as the surrounding air echoes into the fascias of the body, the no need for modesty or shame prevails - privacy moves beyond a touchable body, beyond skin depths, in disregard to the form of the flesh, and becomes deeply buried into a state of mind - beyond the movements of the body, beyond the bare naked eye.
somnum, 2022
insum, 2022
vulnus, 2019
aetas, 2019
sagum, 2022
balneum, 2022
metaphora, 2019
nubibus, 2020
petra, 2020
