Your Body is Mine
A dialogue between identies
As designers and creative minds we are always looking for new ways to express ourselves. From architecture to branding, digital to print, advertising and product design, over the past 4 years our lives have been guided by a deep research of new methods of expression to communicate to the external world our vision of things.
Yet, we realized that our practice, in the commercial sense is a very calculated and defined process where planification and execution play a predominant role and every step is carefully taken to meet the objective of the project. Breaking the rules is not always possible and we reached a point where we needed to cross the boundaries and experiment a bit more than usual.
It was Eva’s birthday when she asked to spend the day painting and writing on each others body. Inspired by the shapes and the skin we got lost for a few hours making a dialogue between words and painting. When we saw our bodies covered with words and strokes we found it really inspiring so we decided to document the full process.
On July 2015, while at the Laus Ceremony for our identity project Brand Me, we contacted photographers Lydia Cazorla and Miquel Lonch based in Barcelona and asked them if they were interested on taking part on our performance.
It was a very hot day when we went to their studio and met them for first time. Apart from being great photographers we particularly liked their open approach to take part on new experiences and we felt really synchronized with them from the beginning.
We took our clothes off and we started our improvisated dialogue. This time we decided to split the process so Mirco started the dialogue on Eva’s body using lines and lines of improvisated poetry and once he felt he has said everything it was Eva who answered to his words using her painting.
Mirco’s writing was a quiet, slow, detailed dance. Eva get relaxed and silently she listened to Mirco’s words. Her naked body become an object that Mirco moved at its whim who carefully selected those parts that inspired him the most moving his words in different directions… Eva’s answer was quick, passionate, almost impossible to shoot. Eva moved around Mirco’s body working here and there drawing unpredictably and just guided by the paint falling through his body.
Once she finished their bodies intertwined on the floor mixing words and strokes, watching their tridimensional canvas where painting, poetry, light and shapes stay together.
Lydia and Miquel did not leave their cameras in any moment of the 8 hours performance. During all the process they were moving around, getting closer and closer to catch our intimate dialogue. Their cameras were between us trying to put themselves in our skins and shoot the same scenes we were experiencing.
The fact of having two more persons documenting the process strengthen our dialogue and make us aware of the different roles we were taking on the process: from maker to being made; from person to object.
