FERRUGINEO CORPORE
2024
Silicone material with rusty nail
40 x 34 cm
An ownerless skin, wounded by time and iron, exposed like the human body before a world that insists on corroding.
Ferrugíneo Corpore is a piece that embodies the tension between matter and metaphor, between skin and emotional landscape. Composed of a freely molded silicone surface, the work simulates a disembodied epidermis, marked by ambiguous textures, abstract scars and grooves that evoke memory, pain and resistance. This "skin" belongs to no one, but speaks of everyone — it is an archetypal, collective skin, open to the viewer's projection.
Suspended from the wall by a single sturdy, old and completely rusty nail, the piece finds its most eloquent rawness at the point of contact between iron and synthetic flesh. The rust infiltrates the skin, contaminates it, slowly oozes like a wound that does not heal, denouncing the symbolic violence of this gesture.
Suspended from the wall by a single sturdy, old and completely rusty nail, the piece finds its most eloquent rawness at the point of contact between iron and synthetic flesh. The rust infiltrates the skin, contaminates it, slowly oozes like a wound that does not heal, denouncing the symbolic violence of this gesture.
The exhibition of the work is deliberately aggressive, like a vulnerable body forced to show its marks to the world.
In this confrontation between the artificial and the organic, between the sculptural gesture and the social commentary, Ferrugíneo Corpore speaks about the contemporary human condition: a permanently exposed, vulnerable body, corroded by oppressive structures. The work is a visual metaphor of silent resistance, of pain that crystallizes on the surface and of the brutality of being seen in a world that hurts before understanding.
In this confrontation between the artificial and the organic, between the sculptural gesture and the social commentary, Ferrugíneo Corpore speaks about the contemporary human condition: a permanently exposed, vulnerable body, corroded by oppressive structures. The work is a visual metaphor of silent resistance, of pain that crystallizes on the surface and of the brutality of being seen in a world that hurts before understanding.
This work was selected to participate in the Júlio Resende Award 2024 (6th edition).
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