Trust the Flesh

Pamela Arce

Opening 10.01.18 6-8pm
Artist Talks 25.01.18 6-7pm

'Trust the Flesh' comes as a result of a series of interviews with a close friend who has recently suffered an accident. Their body went through alterations and despite the clear potentiality of learning new alternatives and finding new routes to the same objectives; this body finds itself still facing the optimal body ideology. The new body is codified as a tragedy: “poor thing”, “how did this happen?”, “will you ever be alright?”. These interviews take the shape of voice- overs in videos in which the human figure and ceramic sculptures collaborate to catalogue movements. Those movements that are taken for granted in the normative bodies, and now re-codified, as mere possibilities between thousands; re-calibrating our perception of the “invalid”, the “helpless” and the “broken”. Trust the Flesh is composed of its video chapters I and II, and interactions between ceramics and experimental rehab structures.