UNTITLED
2024
Silicone material with tattoo and rusty nail
16,5 x 18 cm
A fragment of a body, marked and suspended, between the beauty of the flesh and the brutality of the iron.
In this piece, the silicone skin acquires a denser and more corporeal presence. The rounded and flattened shape subtly but unequivocally evokes the image of a breast — not as a symbol of fertility or eroticism, but as a fragment of identity and vulnerable territory. The surface has tones close to human skin and, in the center, a nipple is tattooed in black, a gesture that introduces a paradox: the permanence of the mark on an artificial material.
As in Ferrugíneo Corpore, the object is suspended by a sturdy, old and rusty nail, but here this nail does not just support — it penetrates. Driven directly into the back of the piece, its head pushes the material from the inside out, suspending it brutally, almost like an act of violence frozen in time.
As in Ferrugíneo Corpore, the object is suspended by a sturdy, old and rusty nail, but here this nail does not just support — it penetrates. Driven directly into the back of the piece, its head pushes the material from the inside out, suspending it brutally, almost like an act of violence frozen in time.
This breast is not just a breast; it is a body in suspension, marked, invaded. The raw exposure reinforces the tension between delicacy and aggression, between the organic and the industrial, between what is cared for and what is wounded. The work speaks about the invisible violence that shapes the female body, about how it is looked at, exposed, marked, wounded — and yet, it remains. Suspended, nailed, but resistant.
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