The exhibition comes form a simple question: what lie sunderneath the skin? The artists goes deeper on the purpose and ways the body is represented, a dialogue between medic imagery, text and exhbition space made into sculture imagery.

Medical imagery allows a bidimensional vision of what is tridimensional. It turns depth into surface and organises matter in symbols; by doing so, it opens a reading where the body becomes a file and a story. James Elkins say that reading an X ray demands thinking in volumne over a plain film. That movement, from shadow to boldness, guides this project.

Under the skin comes in three sections. The first one, Understanding the body, the spectator rebuild silouettes and text fragments on a magnetic board and each association makes a different definition of body, matteriality and meaning. Seeing the body is a traslation excercise: from the first X ray cinematographies by Dr. Macintyre, the grayscale mutate into color and color mutates into volume; the anatomical accuracy is left to intensify the presence, as if the image demanded its return to the space. Finally, Building —and inhabitating— the body implies thinking of it as a place: metallic assembles, resins, and graphic work configurating the minimum refuge, beating furniture and surface waiting to be activated.

It doesn't offer complete anatomy but a trial field. Between clinican and fable, between system and experience. Here, the body isn't illustrated but worked on. What emerges at the boundary between technical and poetic, is not an answer but the chance to watch, touch and think about the body as its own territory in progress.

Selected project of the 1st Edition of Residing in Research. Knowledge Transference through Art contest, called by the Universitat de València Vice-Principal Office for Culture and Society.