Self-made traps
There are traps like cages that we create around us, where we are free to enter or leave, which we can bypass, or turn into our comfort zone. The aim of this project is to investigate both the personal space and space negotiations in the relations with others. I am interested in people’s need to create a comfort zone in various situations and settings where we need to interact and relate both to the space we are in and to other people.
A metaphor of capture and containment, the traps embody various scenarios. Therefore they are false traps, anyone is free to come in or out of them, space delimitation is fictitious, role-playings are interwoven, positions constantly revised, to the point where the captured is the capturer, the routes and directions of crossing the space are intuitively chosen.
Self-made traps
There are traps like cages that we create around us, where we are free to enter or leave, which we can bypass, or turn into our comfort zone. The aim of this project is to investigate both the personal space and space negotiations in the relations with others. I am interested in people’s need to create a comfort zone in various situations and settings where we need to interact and relate both to the space we are in and to other people.
A metaphor of capture and containment, the traps embody various scenarios. Therefore they are false traps, anyone is free to come in or out of them, space delimitation is fictitious, role-playings are interwoven, positions constantly revised, to the point where the captured is the capturer, the routes and directions of crossing the space are intuitively chosen.
Transfer
What if we could not feel anything?
The gloves are objects that cover the hands protecting them. There are objects which can only be used in a pair, when one is lost, the other loses its meaning. The glove that corresponds to the right hand (implicitly the left hemisphere of the brain) contains images obtained by scanning her own body. Fragments of the face, neck, abdomen, breasts, hands, or ear are transferred as traces of intimate touch, like maps of the areas associated with the feelings caused by the objects transferred to the right-hand glove. There is a permanent conflict between feelings and reason, but when one of them disappears, an imbalance occurs and the other loses its meaning. They become a mechanism of self-defense, protection against what could make us bad, or make us vulnerable.
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