LIGHT THAT RIPS THE FLESH

Light That Rips the Flesh is an installation that delves into the tension between matter and energy, between the body and that which passes through it. The work proposes a visual and sensory meditation on the duality between the tangible and the intangible, exploring how the presence of light—symbolizing transcendence, spirituality, or revelation—collides with the density of flesh, with the weight of physical existence. The installation is built within an environment saturated with mist and sandalwood incense, where molded scars, marks, and visual abstractions float between the visible and the hidden. These forms evoke a bodily memory that is not only literal but also symbolic; they are signs of contact, traces of a clash between what manifests and what escapes form.

The work unfolds in two moments. In the first, we hear the narration of an event: the light tries to penetrate the body, to tear it apart, but fails. The matter resists. What remains are marks, scars left by the light, which do not contain it but reveal it. Fragments of a presence that is never complete, never fixed. In the second moment, we see the light freed from the flesh. Separated from matter, it manifests in its pure, volatile, vibrant, untouchable state. This luminous presence, devoid of body, calls forth a form of spirituality without dogma, where transcendence does not deny the flesh but inhabits and transforms it.

Light - 250 cm x 250 cm x 170 cm
Flesh - (x5) ~70 cm x 40 cm x 0.2 cm
Organic matter, Latex, Silicone, Synthetic hair, Acrylic paint, Light
Anotio, 2024