Mixed-media installation
POPA Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016.
Curated by Emilia De Las Carreras
Fragments of human skin, flesh, and fat, grilled and presented alongside a bag of formaldehyde, which was used to preserve the human tissues at the time of their extraction.
The cooked meat, presented in an aesthetic and distanced way, highlights the disconnection between the body and the act of consumption. This process, which involves both cooking and preservation in formaldehyde, plays with the paradox of preserving what should not be consumed, reflecting on cultural control and the dehumanization of the body. Not being consumed, the meat becomes a symbolic object, a cultural artifact that plays with the dynamics of power and the forms of exploitation of the human body in contemporary society.