Body Mapping is a collaborative project between Silvia Gentili and Paloma Tendero. They met in London around 5 years ago after finalising their MA Photography at London College of Communication. Since then, they have been sharing ideas around being artists, projects, and life experiences. 

Over the years, the fact that they have been living in different countries has not stopped them from sharing ideas virtually and through visits once a year. They were looking for ways to make a collaborative project- without realising their correspondence was already the body of work they needed.

Their personal experiences have brought them to talk about health and illness, genetics, pain, fertility, and the perception of the body. Their conversations make the invisible visible,  creating a body of work around and the way human beings relate, perceive, and understand the world through the body. Body mapping explores the experience of one’s own body shape and size, and how the body functions.

During COVID-19 lockdown, their communication increased, exchanging ideas through text, images and video. Silvia working with digital photographs of her body and Paloma exploring analogue photography with still lifes, They created a google doc where they embodied their virtual correspondence into one platform.The proposal for ARTCONNECT is to present their work in progress based on their conversations and how correspondence transforms through time and influences daily life. 


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