A curation by Raffaella Nobili, Owner and curator at Paraventi Giapponesi - The body preserves what the mind forgets; it is an archive of gestures, writings, memories, and silences. It is not merely a support but an agency, an active presence that acts in the world and transforms it. Every body is historically and culturally situated, traversed by social, affective, and political forces that sediment like layers of memory. In some works, such as those of Deborah Lang, the figure is inscribed on the text, as if the flesh were re-emerging from the pages of the word; in Juca Márlon, the skin becomes an emotional surface, a field for the inscription of experience. This tension between body and sign finds a precedent in Shirin Neshat, who in her Women of Allah series (1990s) transforms female skin into a territory of identity and resistance. A lyrical echo of this poetics also runs through Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book (1996), inspired by Sei Shōnagon's diary, where writing on the body becomes an erotic and ritual act, a living memory of the self. In these works, the body not only represents, but acts, accumulates, and returns emotions, stories, and desires, revealing its belonging to time and place.