• BAB - Book as Body

 

BOOK as BODY by Monica Dengo, Marco Ambrosi and Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

BAB series is based on the certainty that our realty exists because we've given it a name, that our representation of the world is as important as - if not more than - its existence a priori and that we, along with the world we're a part of, are defined by our words. - We've chosen the nude body and the writing that defines and transforms it until it becomes the body itself. The text on the body is an entirety of illegible signs, a web of letters that envelop the skin cover and replace it.

Dhompa's poetry and her "dharma" thoughts have been used for the calligraphic illegible textures of writing on the body. Photographic images result in which the person tends to vanish, leaving her own description, a wrapper of writing. A page of writing, side by side with the body - as in a book - becomes a mirror where the body is the page and the page the body.

The body is a way to acknowledge the self that is not there.
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

Unbound book made of 10, loose sheets. No bookcase.

Code: BAB 001
Artist: Monica Dengo, Marco Ambrosi and Tsering Wangmo Dhompa.
Material: photography (original works: make up on skin, sumi ink on paper)
Dimension: 430mm x 606 mm (horizontal)



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