Spider Bone
Fish skin, galvanized steel, metallic thread

2024
A series of fish skin objects sewn into small and abstract structures, in which sometimes you can recognize the details of the costume – the fit line of the shoulder, bodice, armhole.

The structures are emphatically corporeal, pierced with metal and tightened with a surgical wrapping suture, turning into a simple wrapping.

In these objects, the fish acts as a metaphor for a subject without a voice, and in general, they fluctuate somewhere between a symbol and a subject, being and a thing. They act as a tool for exploring fragility, vulnerability, insecurity, and the fear of seeing oneself in them.

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