‘Body Sculptures’ addresses the interface between body and sculpture, working with the current and the historical narratives in our body culture. Bodies in their physical appearance do not only refer to a hegemonic discourse: the arbitrary regulations imposed on us by codes embodied in us remain effective in moulding our minds and therefore our bodies. With the body as the main instrument, I refer in my work to thousands of images from our past, to foreground how bodies represent belief systems of body and gender culture.
With the ‘Body Sculptures’ I create hybrids, with the body as one main instrument and the images preserved in us (the viewer) as the other. Every performed body sculpture departs from the discourses laid upon us, and by shifting the images, changes the constitution of belief systems. Bodies visualize the cultural codes of our time, but in them also lies the power to alter the discourse produced by the codes.
