Concept
Sedimentary rocks are formed by the joining of debris, called sediments, from the fragmentation of other rocks, which occurs in the action of external agents transforming the relief in a process called weathering. Weathering occurs when rocks and soils wear out, breaking down into numerous and tiny...
Sedimentary rocks are formed by the joining of debris, called sediments, from the fragmentation of other rocks, which occurs in the action of external agents transforming the relief in a process called weathering. Weathering occurs when rocks and soils wear out, breaking down into numerous and tiny sediments, such as beach sand or dust. In weathering, chemical, physical and biological processes that are always modifying the relief can happen. Following this logic, the work sedimentary bodies portrays through fragmented photographs, printed on rocks, different types of bodies breaking with the dichotomous view between materiality-spirituality,sensitivity-consciousness, feeling-thinking, nature-culture, body-spirit.
Here, bodies are considered to represent identities, historical relationships in a dialogue with oneself, with others, with the world, in the world. Therefore, in this work the body works as a social symbol, with historical baggage and, when self-recognized by the individual and their people, an ancestral symbol. A symbol presented in fragmented photographs that together with the rocks propose an awareness of the body that is, and always has been, an instrument of struggle and social transformation. The choice of the name sedimentary bodies connects with the process of formation of sedimentary rocks because our bodies in the world, in their social relationships have constant experiences with other bodies. These experiences are a combination of wear and tear, breaks, sediments, and debris that form this body, which can be compared to the formation of the rock that breaks, wears and becomes different sediments from these natural relationships. The spaces of the rock merge with the features of the body. There is a dialogue between the rock body and the human body. Body and rock become one, with their particularities, but having as its axis what is life itself. Body-rock are lives in struggle for their territories historically denied through a structure of power, knowledge, and being that imposed a Eurocentric and hegemonic model, that standardized territories and bodies towards social, racial, gender, and nature inequalities, among others.
Therefore, the sedimentary bodies, if multiplies (or pluralizes) proposing a thought-intervention and tracking our spaces. Tracking against hegemonic spaces. Tracking somehow the world itself, suspended by its spatio-temporal, geo-political, nature-cultural and individual-social being, and here built on expanded fragments of our existence.
