roll n' roll
Installation, Portrait, Other metal, 300x200cm
A PORTRAIT OF THE PORTRAIT
the body of the portrait/the portrait of the body
The body is in itself a portrait, even when it lacks a
The different posters, showing different subjects, have all been printed in the same format and size, and then overlapped and rolled up, with each roll consisting of 2 to 3 sheets, poster-like, left loose and only fixed with pins, as is usually the case. A sort of flaying of the body’s skin, of the flesh’s surface, which turns into paper. A subtle play with an extremely frail, frivolous and transient representation, resulting in non-codified, non-standard faces and bodies. All this leads to the conclusion that there can be no model for the body, no “canonical” body.
By sliding one into the other, the images let themselves be forgotten, always leaving us renewed.
The work has been intentionally left unstable, almost “in flow”, also in order to emphasize the fleetingness of the time in which every impossible portrait is created: what draws our portrait withdraws as a consequence of the passing of time, and a moment later we are different.
Stefano Scheda
the body of the portrait/the portrait of the body
The body is in itself a portrait, even when it lacks a
The different posters, showing different subjects, have all been printed in the same format and size, and then overlapped and rolled up, with each roll consisting of 2 to 3 sheets, poster-like, left loose and only fixed with pins, as is usually the case. A sort of flaying of the body’s skin, of the flesh’s surface, which turns into paper. A subtle play with an extremely frail, frivolous and transient representation, resulting in non-codified, non-standard faces and bodies. All this leads to the conclusion that there can be no model for the body, no “canonical” body.
By sliding one into the other, the images let themselves be forgotten, always leaving us renewed.
The work has been intentionally left unstable, almost “in flow”, also in order to emphasize the fleetingness of the time in which every impossible portrait is created: what draws our portrait withdraws as a consequence of the passing of time, and a moment later we are different.
Stefano Scheda
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