MADRES, MONSTRUOS Y MAQUINAS. ACTO II: NUDOS
solo show, galeria N.A.S.A.L, February 2024
We wrote to each other 10,234 km away and 7 hours of time difference Lucrezia, Mauricio and I. Lucrezia decided to open the exhibition two weeks before the birth of her daughter. We are working on this exhibition as if we had a needle and thread in our hands to endlessly sew a dismembered body that can no longer be the same.
Dismantled, impossible to put back together, disappeared and superabundant at the same time. Composed of units in excessive numbers: nipples, braids, placentas, veins, amniotic fluids, hair and spines suggest a body in becoming, a performable body, an infinite process of possible, multiple and simultaneous incarnations. Euphoric body in its multiplicities and multiplications. Denatured body through the concept of monster, monstrous body to define the difference and, therefore, the limits of normality.
We start from the centrality of the body in the perspective of its empowerment and not of its overcoming in a cybernetic and disembodied key. We generate a thought of the body, of movement, of space, of composition. Not a representation of the body's thought, but an embodiment of it in action. We open a space of thought to practice it, inhabit it. The body becomes a space of political imagination, aware that each modification of the body produces a modification of thought. We experience emotions as alterations of our body, deviations from the rational norm; far from being psychological states, they are presented as cultural practices. Our affections become traces that our bodies leave on others. We understand that affection is a way of thinking, the way that allows us to be in the world rethinking ourselves.
Matteo Binci