Nudity is a form of Dress
If we find in the materialization of this project by Catarina Camara several perceived references, we also come across consolidated know-how in the different disciplinary areas involved. Its authorial side summarizes the contributions invited and asserts itself in pluridisciplinarity, one of the artistic ways of being that is fully part of contemporary times.
“To be naked is to be oneself.
To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude. (The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Naked- ness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display.To be naked is to be without disguise.
To be on display is to have the surface of one’s own skin, the hairs of one’s own body, turned into a disguise which, in that situation, can never be discarded. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.”
In WAYS OF SEEING, John Berger
References:
Eduard Western “Nude” (1936)
Henri Matisse “Nu bleu I, II, III, et IV” (1954)
Bert Stern “Pink Scarf” (June 1962)
Erwin Wurm “One Minute Sculptures”
Dan Fischer “Charles Ray Plank Piece I and II” (1973)
Vanessa Beecroft “Performance VB74 in MAXXI”