Nicolette Michalla

Take your heart, follow its traces to the sole of your feet. Can you hear its beat when walking? The practice I have been developing along the last years wants to promote a sense of anatomo-sensorial consciousness as a bodily anchor of thought, reflection and transformation. In the socio-politic-environmental context we are living in, where the value of a human body and nature is (still) responding (and reduced) to an economic system that attempts against life in all its forms, I believe that turning the attention to our bodies in their most raw physical matter can help arouse questions on how we want to live and how can we actually make it happen. I see my practice as a surface where to host a critical dialog between my physical body and the social one, where the skin that separates us is flexible, elastic and permeable. I touch myself and sense my hand´s pressure. I touch myself and remember. I touch myself and desire. I pull my skin and observe that my shape can actually change. I look at the surface that holds my organs together to realize it is object/ is subject to social representations. When I touch you I am also affected.

– Nicolette Michalla