COLUMNS AND SHRINES. A PERSONAL SEMIOTICS

Abstract

The present article,Columns and shrines. A personal semioticsfocuses on a few personal reflections regarding four personal artisticcreations.In the first part of the article I explain my appeal and fascination for thehuman body, subject and object in sculpture, confining the range of interestto the female body and the children body. I am interested in the artisticpotencies of the body, not in a classical approach, but especially in the bodyfragments that are no longer in a symbiotic connection with the entirepart.The second part focuses on the work that can integrate my concerns,under the generic name of shrines and columns. These pieces of workconverge from my meditations upon the threat on our speciesrepresented by distruction, or self-distruction, through variousmechanisms of body manipulation and by preventing our development.These are personal reflections, but with major social implications.