"Bodies Without Identity" - curated by Marcos Felinto

A curation by Marcos Felinto, founder and curator at 3.gallery - There are bodies that seem to have no identity: we do not see the face, we do not recognize the individual; sometimes the form dissolves, fragments, becomes almost abstract. And yet something remains whole. Because behind any erasure of personal traits, there is an identity that cannot be erased: the human one. When the body stops being “someone” and becomes “anyone,” it does not become empt, it becomes a mirror. We can all recognize ourselves there, not through physical resemblance, but through belonging (even if, to some degree, with an aversion to what we see). Having a body inhabiting it, understanding it, feeling it, is a universal experience; and when we witness that experience from the outside, displaced or reconfigured by the image, our relationship to the body is built in another space: that of imagination, projection, memory, and desire. What do we project onto an image that carries (or refuses) our identity? What fears, longings, affections, tastes, and dislikes emerge when the body becomes a symbolic surface? In this curatorial selection, each work suggests that the absence of identity is not the absence of meaninig.. is an invitation for the viewer to complete the figure with what they already carry within.

30 Artworks

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