Negative Images & sensitive bodies

A research on hidden images of history through embodiment (on going)

This project explores the relationship between the body and the image, seeing them as terrains for exploring the affective and memorial dimensions of human experience. The body, the site of conscious and unconscious experiences, is shaped by social norms, historical violence and the productivist mechanisms of modernity. These repressed experiences are inscribed as sensitive imprints, expressed through “negative images”, invisible but profoundly significant dimensions. This work questions how art can be a space for reappropriating the body and the self, while proposing an aesthetic of obscurity as a critical method in the face of the cultural hegemony of modernity.

The methodology revolves around multidisciplinary residencies bringing together film, the body and writing. These residencies will encourage somatic, visual and sound experimentation. The body will be approached as a receptacle for collective and individual histories, explored liminal states through practices of movement, visualization and sound immersion. The camera, in active interaction with bodies, will reveal imperceptible dimensions, while darkness/light and sound will be used to sculpt sensory spaces where the visible and invisible intersect.

The research will be shared via seminars and workshops, involving students, artists and researchers, and will give rise to an audiovisual installation. Conceived as a matrix darkness, this installation will combine immersive projections and spatialized sound, inviting the viewer to explore other regimes of attention and connect with hidden dimensions of human experience.