Plaster and cloth
40x36x131 cm

2020

 
The garment of grace
The garment that covers and reveals.
The garment that censure the sin.
But does sin exist?
It flaunts the divine to show we are not that.
The body is no longer.
There is no longer nudity!
There is only flesh, sex, sin!
No one is naked anymore, only gets naked.
It is no longer, it happens.
It is the body that is perceived in the absence of raiment.
The garment of light that no longer allows purity,
It reveals the obscene.
The body is no longer,
Than shame.


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I dipped a white sheet in a bathtub filled with plaster and covered my body with it. The left hand, because it is considered by religion as the hand of sin, covered the mons pubis, and the right arm covered the breast. I let the plaster dry over my body when I was in this pose.The combination of these two materials creates a material hybrids capable to get the shapes of my naked body pressed by the arms. Therefore, I intended to show that the existence of the concept of “garment of grace” influences the human’s perception of nudity as sinful. When it is covered, only reveals, through the imprints that the body creates on the cloth.

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