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Mariana Castillo Deball: Moi-Peau
Kunsthalle Lissabon presents "Moi-Peau", the first solo show of Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball in Portugal.
The Skin-Ego (Le Moi-Peau) is a concept coined by French psychoanalyst Didier Anzieu in 1974 on the relations between the experience of the skin and the formation and sustaining of the ego. For Anzieu, the ego is the projection in the psyche of the surface of the body, namely the skin, which makes up this sheet or interface. The skin allows us to distinguish excitations of external origin from those of internal origin; just as one of the main functions of the ego is to distinguish what belongs to myself and what does not belong, between what comes from me and the desires thoughts, and affects of others, and between a physical (the world) or biological (the body) reality outside the mind.
The exhibition at Kunsthalle Lissabon also features Do ut des, an ongoing piece Mariana Castillo Deball has been developing over recent years. Do ut des is a series of altered books with perforations, starting from the front page and working inwards, forming symmetrical patterns when each spread is opened. The books belong to 'O Mundo dos Museus', a collection conceived by Brazilian designer Eug锚nio Hirsch in the 1970鈥檚 offering the reader a promenade through the museum and its functioning, and not just a catalogue of artworks. Each volume is dedicated to a different world museum, starting with photo reportage of the museum in use, its urban landscape and architecture, the process of manipulation and restoration of works, and the visitors walking though the galleries. A two-page spread collaging images of people alongside artworks, indicate the works鈥� dimensions in relation to the human scale.
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Kunsthalle Lissabon presents "Moi-Peau", the first solo show of Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball in Portugal.
The Skin-Ego (Le Moi-Peau) is a concept coined by French psychoanalyst Didier Anzieu in 1974 on the relations between the experience of the skin and the formation and sustaining of the ego. For Anzieu, the ego is the projection in the psyche of the surface of the body, namely the skin, which makes up this sheet or interface. The skin allows us to distinguish excitations of external origin from those of internal origin; just as one of the main functions of the ego is to distinguish what belongs to myself and what does not belong, between what comes from me and the desires thoughts, and affects of others, and between a physical (the world) or biological (the body) reality outside the mind.
The exhibition at Kunsthalle Lissabon also features Do ut des, an ongoing piece Mariana Castillo Deball has been developing over recent years. Do ut des is a series of altered books with perforations, starting from the front page and working inwards, forming symmetrical patterns when each spread is opened. The books belong to 'O Mundo dos Museus', a collection conceived by Brazilian designer Eug锚nio Hirsch in the 1970鈥檚 offering the reader a promenade through the museum and its functioning, and not just a catalogue of artworks. Each volume is dedicated to a different world museum, starting with photo reportage of the museum in use, its urban landscape and architecture, the process of manipulation and restoration of works, and the visitors walking though the galleries. A two-page spread collaging images of people alongside artworks, indicate the works鈥� dimensions in relation to the human scale.
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