“What happens in childhood falls into the dark depths of the body and resurfaces in a blind spot completely invisible to you, but almost always clearly visible to others and from there it moves your threads: like a double drawn in the flesh it becomes behavior, gesture. It is the part of you that you don’t see that identifies and determines you. But if you now rotate on yourself and overlap yourself, you can shape your eclipse. That image can be brought to the front and transformed into a visible object. By giving it a shape, you transform it into an animal, a jewel, a pastime or a game and you place it in front of you so that you can look at it and honor it, giving it the dignity it deserves”.

“Ignari totius corporis” develops the body’s unconscious memories theme, illustrating a method to plunge into those abysses and come out safe. The project, conceived as a travel diary and an instruction manual, collects the images of the objects produced starting from the photograph of a scar on the back, the physical memory of an operation undergone in childhood. That first trace on the flesh, mirrored by the photographic trace and then elaborated as a figure, as a sign, as a “logo”, becomes the occasion for a journey that produces new images at each stage, in a potentially infinite game of concatenation and proliferation.

From the tracing drawings of the initial photograph, first a small zoo of biomorphic figures emerged, traced in ink on a glossy surface, then a three-dimensional rendering of one of these figures, from which two sculptures were produced: a 15 cm resin sculpture with DLP photopolymer printing and an inflatable one in satin-finish PVC about 3 meters long. From the initial photograph were also produced little interactive installations with stones, nails and elastic bands, a plush sculpture, a UV ink stamp, a heraldic coat of arms on an original model of 1600, a pillow, zodiac cards with new constellations and other objects.

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