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..is the continuation of my research around themes I have been exploring in my previous solo works. I have been focusing on the obsession with the "ideal/sucessful body", a kind of evolutionary canon structured by Western society based on the consumption of goods. I am intrigued by the ‘void’ that begins to appear as one passes from ‘private’ to the ‘public’ body. The ‘void’ could be a symptomatic and nihilistic loss that takes place in this transition, so that one can follow the canons in which we are all immersed, which propagate permanent contamination, based on the desire to "become" and “obtain”. These canons that propagate a desire, are particularly linked to ‘industry’ and ‘post-industry’, which gallop through virtual society, full of illusions and traps, wanting to keep us in a state of selfish entertainment so that some can triumph in the perverse game that is ‘contemporary society’. In a deeply empirical observation, I see people increasingly isolated in front of the screen, watching, sometimes appearing, with the simple purpose of being ‘objectified’ for the sake of a particular pleasure, to prove they exist and can, for a while, erase the burden of being ‘subject’. There is a certain pleasure in being passive, in being a ‘channel’ for desire. Television and other media are ideal platforms to prove that you "could" be a subject. The power of ‘image’ is terrifying, especially when associated with the body. This source does not serve a deep need, something that feeds our root, but it is instead useful to spread the merchandising of the great illusion, always in the form of distraction.
Our own body becomes both "weapon" and "target" and we continue to perceive ourselves as a bionic machine because when we look at the mirror, we want to overcome ourselves, we want an intimate "public," we want to be the poster we see, even if that means stopping what we are. We aim to be trans human or even post human to achieve an ideal body (both in terms of beauty and health) through technology and artifice.
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