Skinscapes [2015-2017]

Medium: Digital Collage | Photography

The surface of Earth is its skin and a photograph is a skin.
The skin is abstract and concrete, open and close, smooth, and optic, and it renders humans. It is the horizon between a body and its absence,  the most organic line that mediates a silhouette, and forms a nomadic trace without which there would be nobody.
The human skin is one’s life ‘body memory’ and it records and remembers in its material surface through direct touching, and the extinction of all senses comes from the sense of touch which defines the interfaces between one’s skin and its surrounding.

Different body fragments are embedded into natural sceneries and transform the landscape into a background frame. One’s perception shifts from the surface of the body to the skin of Earth, linking human-body-nature to open spaces, and releasing the confined interiority of the body into the limitless exteriority of the world. It is ‘on’ and ‘through’ each skin that ‘the state’ builds the world…