Corps noir

The creation of Corps noir lies along a continuum stretching out from In Side and Aura with its integration and interaction of images, bodies and the environment of sound and set design. In this new work, however, the artist chooses to become the medium of the message, to expose his inner self and to produce an exploded self-portrait based in the complexity of a star-studded identity and the phantasmagorical constructions of the psyche. To summon the subconscious mind, the artist subjected himself to a Rorschach test—a page/screen onto which to project the uncertain puzzle of a life: the recurrent nature of obsession, the speaking of words that cannot be spoken, and the confusion of sentiment. To open oneself to the unknown and to open the floodgates of father, sex, desire, birth, and death… To summon gesture and action and identify the leitmotifs to be explored more deeply in order to give form to the unfinished canvas of the human body, there were improvisations, with eyes closed, with an attentive yet critical witness watching. In the end, Corps noir is raw immersion in intimacy. The human body staged in a mad collection of props and objects representing a variety of textures, resonant materials, images and voices, like so many metaphors of identity relayed by a state-of-the-art technology that allows for superimposing, embedding, and fusing. This bazaar of the subconscious and of memory presents the reassembled, disjointed or dislocated pieces of a fictitious self that lies somewhere between solid and liquid, frosted screens, ice and water, warmth and cold, obtuseness and transparency. The human body is dragged in to be soaked, soiled, and absorbed…and joins the fray fighting, penetrating, but also embracing. And radiating. In physics, a black body is defined as an object that absorbs all light that falls on it, at all wave lengths…