We already saw a taste of it in 2019, (check it out here) but now Pineapple is happy to feature an extended version of Marco Siciliano’s analogue – 8 denari collages.
“I make myself flesh in order to impel the Other to realize for herself and for me her own flesh. My caress causes my flesh to be born for me insofar as it is for the Other flesh causing her to be born as flesh.”
Jean-Paul Sartre – L’Être et le Néant
In the 8-denier series the presence of bodies is defined by different types of techniques: black and white photos on tracing paper try to get in touch with another body, or with its absence, defined by the skeleton sewn with a silver thread .
Between the two bodies there is the 8 den pantyhose, the unit of measurement that defines its transparency and which gives its name to the series; a sort of skin that covers, protects or tears under their weight and the will to touch each other without success.
The project was heavily influenced by Edward T. Hall’s The Hidden Dimension, which theorises Proxemics as an optimal distance between bodies to communicate. A conflict therefore arises when the word Body takes shape and begins to move in space.
When this happens, it is subtracted from the unreal condition of the point. But a body cannot be dimensionless. Its size, like all the others, make up as many remote distances: the other bodies must move away. From this gap arises the condition of their relationships, their comparisons, their looks, their listening, and their chemistry.
The right interval must be maintained between the body and things, that optimal distance so that this page can be read and communicated with this person. Too close – but also too far away – things and people would invade or disappear to such an extent from the perceptive or dialogical field as to make perception and dialogue practically impossible; because proximity does not degrade to identity or distance ignored. – Marco Siciliano
Artworks by: Marco Siciliano @helterskeltermargo / @1_personne / marcosiciliano.com
