The Body_rope

2011

Photographic prints by artist Paola Cassola exhibited at The Gallery at The Betsy Hotel (2017), Miami, US. Woman wearing red dress and man wearing red top dance, with piano and sax player behind.

Photographic prints by artist Paola Cassola exhibited at The Gallery at The Betsy Hotel (2017), Miami, US. Woman wearing red dress balances on one leg, man stands on left, with piano and sax player behind.

Photographic prints by artist Paola Cassola exhibited at The Gallery at The Betsy Hotel (2017), Miami, US. Woman wearing red dress dances with man dressed in black, another couple dance in foreground, with piano and sax player behind.

EXHIBITION VIEW

The Gallery at The Betsy Hotel (2017), Miami, curated by Deborah Briggs
Performance featuring classical music, a piano, a sax and artists from the Peter London Dance Company and Martha Graham Dance Company

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The Body_rope (2011) investigates identity and how social systems define and construct that identity. It explores the questions of gender and the inherent pluralities within cultural experience and societal structure. From Science to Psychology, through structuralist and post structuralist theories Cassola starts from the notion that one’s behavior, sense of self and actions towards others is, more or less consciously, created through the way society operates. Thus this work investigates the ways to bypass any constructed identity (here represented by a 10kg rope) in order to reach a higher sense of self: the inner essential self (represented by the naked body) and freedom.