(con tener) cuerpo II, ongoing
This is a ramification of the ongoing project ‘(con tener) cuerpo’. In the current phase of the project Sarah is working with wrapping materials transformed into costumes, which function as new bodies. The exercise of wrapping herself in different ways allows her to expand what it means to have a body, and the body as a container. For the period of a month she is artist in residence at Expanded Spaces, new project developed bij AADK Spain in Nea Livera, Greece.
This is a ramification of the ongoing project ‘(con tener) cuerpo’. In the current phase of the project Sarah is working with wrapping materials transformed into costumes, which function as new bodies. The exercise of wrapping herself in different ways allows her to expand what it means to have a body, and the body as a container. For the period of a month she is artist in residence at Expanded Spaces, new project developed bij AADK Spain in Nea Livera, Greece.
The process starts from an obsession with a material (in this case wrapping materials) and the poetic relations the mind creates along the way. The thought of caring for these 'single use' beings that loose their purpose after their use. These beings created to protect something allow her the freedom to create new narratives. Because of the different purpose of their natures a new world of possibility opens up. Using the metaphor of wrapping as a new skin to seek protection she invites them to take new shapes blending the bodies.
'' I brought to Nea Livera a suitcase full of air. Air like an ephemerally wrapped body that I carried with care. Waiting to arrive to be held later.
Walking I entered the body that surrounded us (and the house). On one of the walks there was a tree and it was as if I was seeing myself from another perspective.
This sensation was embodied several times afterwards.''
_Walking I entered the body that surrounded us (and the house). On one of the walks there was a tree and it was as if I was seeing myself from another perspective.
This sensation was embodied several times afterwards.''
''(con tener) cuerpo'' is an ongoing research project in which Sarah considers the relationships between body and object, mind and space. In Spanish, contener means 'to hold' or 'to contain' and con tener means 'to have'. The artist explores both having a body and the body as a container.
