Title: Pin Face
Type: photo project
Technique: photo, pin, zip, one chain, white color, balt cap
Year: 2010
In my work I focused, over the years, on the idea of altering the physical features of my characters by modifying the female figure with the aim to achieve a progressive cancellation of the personality, a transformation into shape, that is to say in decontextualised forms to be inserted within the composition of my works. Pin Face is a series of portraits that focused on the face and therefore on the antithesis between the face as the maximum identifier of individuality and its depersonalisation and decontextualisation.
The pin is an iconographic element of Punk and, to me, it symbolises the rejection of any form of control. In order to escape control, homologation, a defined identity that no longer belongs to us, it is necessary to go through a process of cancellation that is achieved through homologation with whitewashing. However, to subvert this identity, there is a further step of disfigurement and mutation that needs to be made, a step that adds elements that pierce the skin and graft on it, in a sort of urban and modern tribality, a self-sacrifice updated in a contemporary fashion.