2650 square centimeters 

2023

Stainless Steel 

130 x 80 x 60 cm 

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The artist performs a ritualistic embrace with a lover while covered in paint, thereby creating an imprint of one body on another, which traces the shape and surface area of the moment of contact. 

 

The imprint is then 3D scanned and fabricated in stainless steel – a material cold and rigid, a permanent monument to the temporary act of bodily colonization. Power dynamics underlie every act of physical intimacy, and the bodily touch transforms into a prolonged psychological transgression.  A hollow shell serves as a customized body armor; a testament to the absent, detached bodies.  

 

The title of the work refers to the surface area calculated from the 3D scan of the embrace - a quantification of interpersonal connection. ​

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