Biography
My artistic research is focused on the skin, as body and physical border, a filter, a permeable surface on which we carve our personal history. The body creates marks and, at the same time, it accumulates them on its surface in the form of wrinkles, scars, tattoos and the natural aging process. This research is a reflection on the body as object/subject and foundation of identity.
By operating a close up on some parts of the body, lines and pores become visible; skin surface shows a multitude of lines and suggests the multiple movements of the body.
The subject is realized through paper perforation, which becomes the matrix to reproduce it by the “spolvero” technique; the charcoal fallen through the perforations represents the mark left by the body passage.
The mark is the dust, ephemeral and eternal part of the universe.
The act of perforation ritually confirms the existing connection between inner and outer worlds: skin pores represent the opening of the body on the outside world, the chance of leaving a mark behind.
Lucia Masu
