BarbaraGFMuriel

Scar, body, fragility, identity, clinic. The lines of research and artistic experimentation that Barbara G.F. Muriel seeks to explore open up around these concepts. She starts by reflecting on her own body and biographical process to remake the identity concept from another point in the margin of the normative ideal. Interested in the clinic speech she works directly on magnetic resonances of her head, with the aim of extracting those sequences from the medical look and introduce a critical displacement.

In this process of intimate reappropriation, the needles embroider fragments of a body woven with narratives and pathological and normative discourses, but also erratic and dissident. Clinical data and taxonomies become, between fabrics and embroidery, intimate portraits, raw and radical nudes; other forms of self portrait where there is no face, no identifiable features, no sex, age or skin color, and where the scar emerges as a sign of fragility, but above all as a mark of survival and condition common to all living bodies.