Ex Corpore
Ex Corpore is based on the gesture of extracting and taking portions
of images from gay pornographic sources. The project explores pornography
both as a staged intimacy and as an urge to desire for actual closeness.
The extract is a process in which the virtual images became real.
In this way, the image of a body becomes a body in itself.
The analogy between the bodies internal to the image and the
embodied image generates two epidermal levels: one skin within
the scene and another consisting of the coloured surface,
made of craters, spots and wounds.
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