BODY ILLUSION

The body and its centrality have always been the reference used to finalize man’s primary resources. Through our body we can interact with the materiality of things. Our biological needs define precise parameters which aim to create a hierarchy of values that protect and preserve the individual. This implies a succession of dynamic events which are defined in terms of quality and, in spite of their fluidity, consolidate a subjective presence which is essential for preservation. From the consciousness of this condition derives the attempt to determine our choices without being influenced by pre-established mental schemes. The images proposed in “body illusion” present a structure stimulated by the solicitations of an external search for the body’s centrality: here the body mutates its biological memory and loses its abilities to transmit and assimilate information, thus it loses materiality and decomposes. The body expresses itself with its transparency, it loses its objective value, its sexuality, its volume and is shown as an insubstantial and two-dimensional body, without any definite support to use as a parameter of spatial reference. It becomes an evanescent presence which rejects its solidity. Volumes become flat, turn into an ethereal mental perception, sublimate in the illusory colour, like the shapes reproduced in the images, which confirm the indefinableness of things.

The images in body illusion were taken with a digital camera. The image has not been altered, cut, nor elaborated digitally.

There are no shots of human bodies.

felix dario ruggeri