Endure
by Chiara Benzi
portfolio special mention call 'Urbanautica Institute Awards 2023', 2023
Category: People and Communities
"How much can a body endure?" Benzi asks herself.
She explores our longings and fears projected onto nature and what our bodies can endure, starting with the physical body and then lifting off into a more oneiric space.
The project transcends our dysfunctional coexistence with nature, embracing a fantasy in which a woman becomes a dream, an animal, a plant… A woman returns to soil, returns to frailer form.
Using photography, video and sound, her work aims to involve the viewer in a dreamlike voyage through the most hungry, lustful, disgusting, vulnerable part of herself speaking. At the same time, she seeks a link between personal and collective, between introspection and connection, creating the ambiguity ratio, the double entendre, and the double meaning.
It’s an open reflection that draws from imagination as a favored tool of discovery and contamination in relationships between humans and the rest of the living beings.
also from Urbanautica Institute Awards 2023