MAMOGRAFIA
2023
Lithographic ink on paper
Between touch and disappearance, the body becomes a trace — an impression that resists oblivion.
Mamografia is a work that arises from the intimate gesture of printing a part of the body — the breast — on tracing paper, using lithographic ink as a mediator between skin and surface. This work is a sequence of six prints in which the body gradually loses clarity and shape, in a process of visual degradation that reflects the erosion of physical presence. Throughout the reproductions, the ink becomes scarce, the outline dissolves, and what was once recognizable transforms into an almost ethereal abstraction, marked by graphic noises and ambiguous silhouettes.
This visual journey is simultaneously a disappearance and a persistence. The breast, as a symbol and fragment of the body, begins as an explicit impression, but as it is repeated, it becomes a trace, a trail, a memory. There is a tension here between what is revealed and what is hidden, between touch and absence, between the body and the paper.
This visual journey is simultaneously a disappearance and a persistence. The breast, as a symbol and fragment of the body, begins as an explicit impression, but as it is repeated, it becomes a trace, a trail, a memory. There is a tension here between what is revealed and what is hidden, between touch and absence, between the body and the paper.
With a title that evokes a medical examination — Mammography —, the work proposes a reflection on the clinical gaze versus the artistic gaze, on the objectification and subjectivation of the female body. This is not a scientific record, but a poetic one; it is not a diagnosis, but an expression. Through repetition and wear, the artist creates a kind of archaeology of touch, a process of impression that is also erasure, leaving the viewer with the task of finding meaning in the noise, in the abstraction, in the almost invisible.
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