2013
Live performance by Marta Lodola, duration 30 min. Materials: camera with projector, table, gauzes, scissors, white paper, black marker, glass of water, crackers
Event Labirinti Festival 2013, curated by Caterina Arcangelo, Turin
Beauty means body perfection nowadays, every woman needs to have and follow some standards to be sexually acceptable. We are slowly losing the sense of what a real body is, also thanks to photo editing and surgery, and humans are living less and less in contact with their true nature.
Female body is often related to a certain model that must be followed in order to be “nice” and accepted by others, but this is leading to new kinds of psychological disorders related to the need of perfection. Not only the excess of surgeries could be dangerous at some point, but also the fact that anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders could occur.
Only sharing the idea that each body is perfect we can start to show another choice!
I mark my body with a black felt-tip pen, highlighting the parts that are usually subject to surgery. I’m sitting at the edge of the space, in front of a table and a camera filming my face in detail. My enlarged image is projected at the centre of the scene where the action takes place. A paper doll is cut out of a white sheet of paper, then cut into pieces with metal scissors. I reach the centre of the video projection and draw the same correction marks on my body, then wrap my face and hands in medical gauze. I attempt to eat and drink without success.
ph Francesco Gabriele Insalaco