Body Architectures is born from a concern for the body. It presents questions and reflections on identity, on the meaning that society gives to my body, on what it means to have and to be, at the same time, a body. On the one hand, as Judtih Bulter explains “the body appears as a passive medium on which cultural meanings are inscribed”. In this sense, it is recognized that the processes of incorporation fostered by culture shape the subjects of society, with the body becoming a symbolic construction. On the other hand, the body is also presented as a reference and measure for all the relations that the subject establishes with its environment, thus acting as a mediator between the outside world and the subject itself. From perception, movement, memory and presence, the subject has a body experience about the space and time that it inhibits. Both perspectives are collected in this project.

Body Architectures is consolidated as an investigation that metaphorically works the construction of the normative body from the construction of objects-prosthesis and the explorations that arise between body and object, with the purpose of developing diverse narratives that question the socio-cultural models of codification of the present. In this construction/exploration process, the body is constituted as a narrative space. The methodology itself becomes research, since multiple readings or narratives can be generated from the same object.

The prosthesis forms a hybrid body, it not only shelters the body, but at the same time imprisons it. It works as a body prison that incapacitates, restricts and conditions, limiting its movements and actions. But the body shows its resistance. The artwork constructs the metaphorical image of a body that resists the weight of the wood, the impositions of the object and the burden of its role. Finally, this project is developed in 3 years of research, leading to a series of sculptures, photographs, videos and drawings. Body Architectures began with the purpose of making sense of the body and ended up being a personal search for identity which allowed me to understand in depth why my body matters.