Fragmentos para una anatomía imaginada

Abstract

Man continues to search for the reflection of his inner self, through representations of the body that he does not know or that he has not seen. Anatomy, like psychology and philosophy, among other sciences, are instruments that, on their own, do not reveal the true meaning of the body. Art, and within it, the expressions of the plastic arts, are possibilities that seek to communicate a particular vision that has more to do with the imaginary body—the one that has not been seen—because it only belongs to the experiences of a given individual, who, like many, has constructed the image of his or her body from various fragmentary meanings and allusions, which speak of it but have never been able to define it in its entirety. Fragments for an imagined anatomy is a possible meaning of the human body. Through transparencies, I show various connections between the interior and exterior of the body, through an approach that contains, on the one hand, a vision of the representations of the soul and the expression of emotions, and on the other, the physical and anatomical representations of the body. Each transparency is a file containing photographic images, graphics, superimposition of wax planes and projection of light through them as if they were X-rays, intended to show internal and abstract aspects of corporeality. They are metaphorically constructed by layers of skin that compile bodily experiences organized in such a way that different levels of perception of the same body can be seen, from the extreme and visual of a physical nature, to the most hidden of an immaterial and abstract nature.