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STATEMENT
My relationship with the digital print is not new but has become more relevant in my recent works. I feel particularly attracted by to the extended field printmaking offers in contemporary art.
The choice of digital print is related to the idea of always starting projects with a photographic image (parts of the feminine body), transforming it until it is imbued with an evident unreality. This manipulation of the optical nature of the original photographic image - which refers to the strong presence of a woman’s bodily images in our visual culture - allows us to question some of the rules and values that change over time and which are connected to the mass media that adhere themselves to the gender identity. The sense of femininity fades or asserts itself in accordance with external criteria, socially and politically constructed and manipulated, sometimes conditioning and limiting the representation of the gender to an ideal image devoid of a more subjective content.
In this sense, the integration of a narrative in the construction of the image, the presence of the text, almost texture at times, without apparent relation to the image, aims at accentuating the idea of the body as an object - pure surface receiving messages, in my work for instance, also adopt to any shape, such as envelopes, pillows, sheets, games and more. |
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