burn my love burn by Mariana HAHN

burn my love burn

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The work “burn my love, burn” creates the body as the carrier of historical signature, the body does so by will, it inscribes, devours the story- becoming a container that vibrates and lives within a narrative. The shroud becomes the elementary signifier of such a historical narrative, it has been impregnated by the story, acts as the monument. Through the burning of it it can become part of an organic form in motion. The text conditions and creates the body within a specific hermetically sealed space. The words activate the bodies field of memory as much as it creates a new one, adding on to the net of connotations the figure has toward words. The ritual becomes the form through which this transformation can be made, the body eats the body, destroys and paints again, another image. Again this is done by the word, it creates the flesh, gives it differentiating coloration, its plausible point of view. The body acts as a paper, it is inscribed by those murmurs of historie, becoming a living artifact of its own history.

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