This self-portrait on canvas, between sculpture, installation and performance, is transformable and evolutionary. It can be installed to reveal different states,... Read More
This self-portrait on canvas, between sculpture, installation and performance, is transformable and evolutionary. It can be installed to reveal different states, for example the board can be completely bandaged. It thus becomes a "tableau clinique", according to the medical term in french. I looked at my own medical history through this interactive self-portrait: Dissected, stapled, sutured, broken, x-rayed, bandaged, wounded, plastered, pricked, bled, analysed, operated, isolated, medicated, treated, isolated, ointment, tested, vaccinated : The disease has taken shape, my body is medicalised by the medical profession : Clinical case in a clinical environment.
The transformation of the artwork is possible by touching it, thus subjecting it to the risk of being "wounded/contaminated" by the person
who intervenes to reveal its possibilities and thus make it live. This further reinforces the notions of risk and fragility inherent in our human nature. Here the work of art becomes a real substitute for the artist, the palimpsest of my history.
