Cuerpos

Agustina Isidori

Cuerpos is a symbolic fusion between nature and women; it proposes a new language to reflect on the naturalized violence against women and the aftereffects of trauma.

The atmosphere is filled with haunting motionlessness, an intangible melancholy adorned by the beauty and painful fragility, yet strength, of the image. The deep sadness and disquieting peace is accompanied by a communal living between beauty and sorrow, quietude and violence, poetry and pain.

Trauma is the cornerstone of this project. What happens on the surface of the earth is closely connected to what happens underground. Trauma is a wound on the body and on memory, a profound rupture in everyday life, which attacks the self from the outside, impacting its surface and tearing the skin. Trauma is an inherited wound. Trauma builds subterranean psychological states; it makes solid footing uncertain and occasionally causes earth above to collapse.

Cuerpos is a call to understand the origin and maintenance of a naturalized scar on women’s bodies. Feminicide is the ultimate link of a long chain of hate, disdain, and violence reinforced by a patriarchal society. Cuerpos explores the body as a tool and battleground to denounce violence.

These are portraits that do not shout out of fear, but out of anger.

2016

HD Double Screen Video Installation