Constellation on the Skin
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Constellation on the Skin got birth from a thought that once passed through my mind. I was in the bathtub full of water, washing my hair. With my mind empty, I was looking at the many beauty spots on my chest. I saw an entire universe with tiny stars shining. It was 2016. After shooting those fragments of my skin, they soon became an installation with 19 pieces of 113 x 42 cm each.
I worked then to find a way of preserving this ”constellation” moment from the bathtub untouched by the time’s passing. As a metaphor, I placed each photography between the two layers of a Thermopane window. Since then, 16 skin constellations have become immortal. Over the glass surface, are drawn imaginary constellations as some „vectors” of transition: broken lines connecting two points.
A very important role for the entire installation play the three left pieces, which are traditional linen canvases – collage and painting. The feathers can be touched and the painting does have a particular smell. Neither touch or smell can be kept frozen in a piece of glass, the way only a photograph can.
