The exhibition Body Unbound stems from the need to investigate the human figure beyond its merely tangible dimension, exploring the increasingly thin threshold that separates the real from the digital, concrete presence from virtual absence.
The exhibition unfolds as a polyphonic narrative, integrating the artistic languages and techniques of five artists—Sabatino Cersosimo, Elisabetta Di Sopra, Cecilia Terrone Chang, Martina Menegon, and Francesca Genovese—around two core axes. On one hand, there is the materiality of substance, where painting and video art convey the gravity of the body and the physical reality of existence, highlighting the fragility, pain, and beauty of a human condition rooted in physical space. On the other, the digital dimension unfolds, where an unprecedented, fluid, and dematerialized anatomy moves through the ether of the web, radically redefining the notions of identity, temporality, and spatiality.
This dialogue between traditional mediums and new technologies brings to the surface a profound tension of the contemporary era: the need to rediscover the quality of tactile contact and physical matter on one side, and the relentless drive toward dematerialization on the other.
Drawing upon the thought of sociologist Zygmunt Bauman—for whom “in the information age, invisibility equals not existential, but social death”—the exhibition route highlights the daily pressure to which each of us is subjected: the imperative to display our presence in order to be recognized and granted a role in the world.
Transcending traditional codes of representation, Body Unbound presents an identity in constant metamorphosis, ultimately posing a fundamental question to the visitor: what does it mean, today, to inhabit one’s own body?
