NÃO ME TRAÍSSE O CORPO

Não Me Traísse o Corpo (Had My Body not Betrayed Me) emerges from a state of creative inertia, using the act of creation itself as a strategy to resist internal constraints. The work presents a humanoid figure made of silicone, hair, thread, and resin, positioned between the real and the artificial—evoking a duplicated body, interrupted and in constant transformation.

This piece reflects on identity as something unfixed—reproducible, malleable, and subject to manipulation. By banalizing and reshaping the image of a face, the work turns identity into a tangible object: something to be handled, deconstructed, and ultimately accepted. Through materiality and artistic gesture, it processes what it means to carry an image, and by extension, the ontological condition of being and existing.

The installation exists within a tension between presence and disappearance, between form and collapse. Though the figure remains still, it carries the memory of a former movement—of effort, exhaustion, and silent resistance. An emotional suspension lingers in the body presented, as if it inhabits the space between who one is and who one once was.

175 × 45 × 20 cm
Silicone, hair, thread, resin
Anotio, 2025