Claudia Amatruda

Good Use Of My Bad Health

The project is part of a research that starts with the transformations over time that a rare degenerative disease makes on the artist’s body. She is inspired by the concepts of Donna Haraway, for whom the union between cyborgs and humans challenges traditional and binary categories such as man/woman, natural/artificial, and she experiments with Astrida Neimanis’s theory in Bodies of Water through the visual instrument: as aquatic bodies, we experience ourselves less as isolated entities and more as oceanic eddies in which water is a continuous gestation of differences, complicating any opposition between we are all the same” and “we are all different.

The posthuman approach transforms the body into a theatre of welcome for foreign elements, highlighting possible contaminations and metamorphoses through self-portraiture. The artist finds the cyborg in the instruments of help that, as the body deteriorates, become part of her everyday life, and she considers water as a metaphor for relationship and care.

Project featured in Giovane Fotografia Italiana 11 | Contaminations

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BIO

Claudia Amatruda
(1995)