What I Carry Beneath the Skin I Live In / Inner Beauty
The project was created for a thematic exhibition in which X-ray images were the given theme and reference material. It is based on X-ray images of the artist’s body, in which simulated artistic interventions on the bones — tattoos, inlays, and symbolic modifications — paraphrase the anthropological and cultural need for the modification of the human body.
Unlike conventional, visible body modifications, these interventions are displaced into the inner, invisible space of the body, articulating — in an ironic and critical framework — the concept of “inner beauty.” The project problematizes the body as a cultural construct, the body as a project of identity, and the relationship between technology, aesthetics, spirituality, and contemporary practices of self-transformation.
The installation questions the boundaries between outer and inner, visible and invisible, natural and constructed, spiritual and corporeal, positioning the body as a site of artistic, symbolic, and identity-based transformation.
