Unreachable Safety, 2009
Sensible Sculpture

Description and concepts:
Unreachable Safety is a touch sensitive electronic light sculpture in a form of a semi transparent arm fixed in the wall. The arm, when touched by the spectator, turn on their lights and intensify it.
The red luminous intensities of the member remits to an amplified sensation of the feeling of security and emotional reciprocity exchanged between two people, however, the project seeks to question the sensation of trust as an unreachable feeling by the simulated situation presented.
The project questions the guaranty in contemporary life where people are constantly insecure by the media, government and capitalist system, presenting the existence of security only within a systematic simulation.

The Psychosomatic Bodies series
Unreachable Safety is part of a series of sculptures called “Psychosomatic Bodies” that investigates the human behaviors through the construction of suspended members that express unconscious desires and feelings using the digital in a search of interconnection with the material. In the series, I use concepts of psychology as memory, mental disorders, affective disorders, alienation, safety, trauma, unconscious and feelings. Such investigations are physically materialized forming behavioral and sensitive sculptural beings.

Within this research I am questioning the possibility of inserting psychological behavior into expanded sculptural machines, with the purpose of making it to express some feelings that becomes visible for the public through the sensitivity of the eye or the touch. Aesthetically, I am looking for the transparency of solid sculptural parts that aim the unconscious visualization by the unification of the material interconnected by fragile digital drawings, intensities and images in movement. The images are the imagery thoughts, a materialization of the sensation and the physicality aims to the psychosomatic body.

Colaborators:
Radames Ajna: Programming
Jucelino Pereira da Silva: Resin arm

Documentation of the work.