The Body Archive

My practice situates the body as a territory of investigation and friction. The skin is not a limit, it is an archive: a surface where memories, hierarchies, and violence, operating from the intimate to the geopolitical, are inscribed. The body functions as both a support and a critical dispositive, a space where structures of authority become visible and, therefore, questionable.

I work through a language that traverses performance, installation, sound, video, and digital media, articulating projects that tension the relationship between territory, identity, and power. Displacement, borders, and processes of occupation reveal how space is never neutral, but rather a field of symbolic and material contestation.

Gold—historically linked to sacred art, capital, and the legitimation of power—becomes a material of confrontation: it exposes hierarchies, evidences vulnerabilities, and restores value to that which has been erased. In the face of the damnatio memoriae applied to the non-normative and to displaced subjectivities, my work insists on reappearance.

Technology does not act as an ornament, but as a critical extension: it amplifies the inscription of the body, unveils mechanisms of control, and shifts the boundaries between the physical and the virtual. My projects are documented, open, and replicable processes that do not seek to illustrate discourses, but rather to activate real transformations.

■ Monica Mura