Beyond human skin/ Invisible cohabitations

Description

by Martina Martonsky edited by Elena Cantori, EContemporary

 "Beyond Human Skin / Invisible Cohabitations," it's a visual journey that proposes to rethink the human body as a porous, permeable, and plural organism. Through photography, illustration, video, and animation, the work makes visible otherworldly presences that normally escape our gaze. Not to describe them didacticly, but to create an imaginary in which the body becomes a shared space, one part among many within a living and complex multispecies ecosystem.

If every being exists through others, questioning the human impact on the ecosystem becomes inevitable: it involves rethinking how we inhabit the world and assuming responsibility toward the nonhumans with whom we coexist. The exhibition aims to be a first step toward imagining—and perhaps beginning to practice—more sensitive, conscious, and respectful forms of coexistence.

Martina Martonsky (she/her) is an Italian artist with a background in Gender Studies. She currently studies Animation at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Her artistic practice explores alternative representations and counter-narratives of the so-called human. Experimenting with hybrid narratives that intertwine video, photography, illustration, and animation, her works focus on monstrosity, animality, and non-human life forms, investigating them within a broader ecological horizon.

Monday>Sunday 5.00pm-8.00pm

Organized by:

Casa del cinema di Trieste, Galleria EContemporary