Invented Skins

No one can get out of their skin. This popular saying expresses the fact that each person has a skin. Each skin is therefore unique. It is a non-transferable document. Acting as a record, it details aspects of an individual and a collective memory. Each skin possesses a sensitivity that touches and it is touched by the world. It mediates temperature fluctuations, and is marked by cuts, accidents, and its own history. Skin marks us in the world, giving us the outline of individuals. Invented skins is the result of a research process in art and literature that considers the social dimension of t exts and images throughout cultural memory. How it has a materiality when it appears in images, is narrated or scanned, but also in its quality of image, appearance, and the textures that are formed from its property as tissue and organ. This book shows that skin is a biological reality that occupies a physical and psychic space, but also unfolds in the imagination. A skin is something artists...