Using the body as both subject and medium, Clarissa Falco challenges traditional representations that reduce the body to an object of visual pleasure. Instead, she positions it as both creator and active participant in the act of creation.
Eroticism, in her view, is a fundamental force driving desire, and her work establishes a strong connection between the body and mechanical apparatuses. She explores how societal structures distort the body, questioning what might happen if the internal and external mechanisms that shape human existence were to break down. Would they become sterile, or would they transform into something entirely new?
For Falco, variation is essential to human survival, emerging as a dynamic movement between technology and nature. She describes this as a form of “techno-nature”—an autopoietic system in which bodies and their environments continuously reshape one another, generating new possibilities for existence.
SELECTED WORKS
MAY BE ONE ANIMAL BIT IT TWICE
Maybe One Animal Bit It Twice unfolds as a series of sculptural assemblages created from materials sourced in Berlin-Moabit. These works take shape as hybridized clusters of disparate objects, forming corporeal structures that evoke organic qualities.
Oscillating between the human and the mechanical, biological life and material permanence, figuration and abstraction, the installation questions what it means to be human in an era of increasing environmental hostility and planetary uninhabitability. Is “the human” still a category worth striving to belong to? And if the species endures, what form might humanity take in the future?
Clarissa Falco_Maybe One Animal Bit It Twice, 2023_Installation view ScopeBLN_Berlin
Clarissa Falco_Maybe One Animal Bit It Twice, 2023_Mixed media_37cm x 130cm x 37cm
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