Screen-printed decals on porcelain and blown glass
Installation dimensions: 42 × 58.5 × 38.5 cm
The series Body Poetry explores bodily alterations, surgical interventions, and various manipulations aimed at reversing the passage of time, a theme increasingly present in film and visual arts. The conceptual framework of this work emerged after viewing Body Odyssey (2023), the debut film by Italian director Grazia Tricarico starring Swiss bodybuilder Jacqueline “Jay” Fuchs, and The Substance (2024), directed by Coralie Fargeat and featuring a prominent female cast led by Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.
For the creation of these works, I replicated the packaging of body-slimming creams, perfume caps, and a series of hand-screen-printed self-portraits. The poetic treatment of the images evokes a surgical process: first, incisions are made, and then the fragments are assembled onto the surfaces of the pieces. The way in which the images adapt to these surfaces serves as a metaphor for how bodies conform to standards associated with physical appearance.
Some porcelain pieces are complemented by blown-glass elements, alluding to the malleability and fragility of auras. Other works recreate a surgical environment through the inclusion of instruments such as scissors, scalpels, and stainless-steel trays, all commonly associated with the medical field. Every detail of the pieces seeks to underscore singularity as a positive value, celebrating the uniqueness of each body, as though it were a form of poetry, even when it exists outside normative standards.
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