Aurora
Couret
Project name:
Piel de Coral
88x65 cm
Linen fabric and polychrome red clay

The body stands as a canvas of vindication and denunciation: the skin, with its folds, marks and nuances, reclaims its place as a legitimate territory of experience and beauty. The “coral skin” becomes a metaphor for diversity: just as the reefs do not renounce their exuberance despite the sea swings, our epidermis carries in its uniqueness the vitality that aesthetic canons try to homogenize. Acne, scars and tonal heterogeneities cease to be “imperfections” to reveal themselves as layers of identity, authentic corals that live under the prejudiced gaze. From my experience as a model I re-know the judgments and criticisms that manifest themselves in this closed space of the strict.

The installation, articulated in red clay and linen, dialogues with the exhibition space through the repetition of ceramic figures: evocations of Cuban corals that, sewn on the textile surface, emerge from an inner ocean. The clay establishes a link with the earth, reminding us as a bridge between the corporeal and the social. Through this installation she aims to deconstruct the idea of a unique beauty, revealing that standards are narrow lenses that hide the richness of difference.

This work invites the viewer to suspend geometric judgment and to recognize in each texture and in each relief the value of diversity, giving the skin -our first and most intimate contact with the world- its status as a living work.


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