Psicopompa

The topics are those of compulsion and mutation, of physical modification. The frog symbolizes metamorphosis, stoutness and persistency in an action aimed at the creation of a mutation. The obsession for the body is the current opium of the masses. It is useful to maintain the Establishment that millions of people think compulsively of their navel. Narcissism is necessary to the consumption of goods and the body is politics. The perception of our body is burdened by social meanings: the ideas of beauty, health, and normality proceed from a culturally produced/induced trend. Society's structure and body design interact, central and inner categorisations peculiar to the culture in which they are forged. THerefore many different cultural meanings/information assume the crystalline form of a disease: compulsive eating, cultural discomfort, twisted sense of self.
The body becomes project and private practice: the skin turns into an endless resource to built an identity.
assemblage, rubber, blood, earthenware pedestal, china statue,
in wooden frame 12,5x40x13 cm., 2011