FRAGMENT OF AN HOLLOW STRUCTURE
Drawings | Alessandro Carboni
Production | 2025
Materials | Graphite, oil pastel, marker, and eraser on paper
The drawings stem from a reflection on the concept of “semi-”, an etymological root that evokes “half,” “partial,” and the unfinished. The body is imagined as a porous structure—never fully formed—suspended between what it is and what it might become. These imaginary bones become speculative maps, traces of a geography of possibilities in which the organism emerges as an open, unstable, ever-transforming system. The investigation is rooted in the archaeological observation of animal bone fragments—not as mere biological memory, but as imaginative thresholds for the invention of new anatomies. The skeleton is deconstructed, reduced to its elemental units, each bone reimagined as a mobile, recombinable module capable of generating new joints, movements, and volumes. Through drawing, the artist creates a taxonomy of imagined bones: missing forms, never existing—or perhaps not yet emerged. From this graphic practice, three-dimensional objects are born—sculptural models that activate a choreographic inquiry. The performer’s body becomes a cavity, a hollow, permeable container inhabited by these fictitious bones which, animated by motion, compose a dance made of remnants, potentialities, and metamorphoses.