Dermica is a multimedia textile installation by sculptor Miriam Medrez, made especially for the space of the Plaza Fátima Cultural Center. On this occasion, Miriam Medrez's work, which focuses mainly on the human body, was adapted to the height and dimension of the room to become an immersive experience and semi-monumental textile installation.
As you go in, you notice that it is an inverted dive. Inverted, by putting what constitutes the skin as an organ in the foreground, creating a visual encounter between the gaze, the reflection and the inside. Putting the most visceral dimension of the skin before us provokes reactions, and that is what Miriam Medrez seeks: to open ourselves to the universe of sensations that we recognize as our own from an eye that is observed tactilely. On the other hand, this almost impossible encounter between reflection and flesh leads us to a recognition of our biological body, the material from which we are made.
We are faced with the sensation of the skin as a living organ, a device of folds, of infinite possibilities. Only a multiple body has as much skin as the suspended tubes from which a voice and saxophone melody emerge, an almost religious presence and the manifestation of pure emotion.
By Virginie Kastel