Bodies X-XV

The installation “Bodies X-XV” consists of aluminum hybrid figures that resemble correspondents and solemn wanderers at the same time. Continuing her “Bodies” series of works, the artist develops a cluster of two-dimensional sculptures related to the warming climate of the Mediterranean. Structured from an assembly of human, technological, and natural parts, the figures emerge as environmental beings. Although they cannot be identified with known characters or myths, the drawings and imagery on their epidermis reveal their geographic origins. The element of fire traced on the bodies implies that they have departed from turbulent locations, holding memories of wildfire incidents or being capable of healing affected places and traumas. These anthropomorphic but also eerie bodies are accompanied by elements that the artist collected at Mediterranean regions; elements like thorns and baskets bear a physical remembrance of loss and ecological destruction but also a reality that is to be opposed by bodies captured in movement.