Alexei Vella
It Lacks A Human Corpse
The body, as well as nature, is subjected to regenerative or degenerative transformations. When the body undergoes a transformation, there is a reminder of the final transformation; the final transformation into a corpse is marked with the utmost abjection. These transformations are potentially traumatic, abject and destructive. Transformation can also be associated with being monstrous, horrific, liminal and abhuman. These transformations influence people’s perceptions and interpretations toward the body, be it through their own construction or that of society and culture. My intuitive process is rooted in my own personal experience of transformation and the symbolic and archetypal forms that stem from these experiences. My experiences are augmented by cultural representations of transformation; these images are saturated with things of an uncanny, formless, grotesque and monstrous nature. They are embodied in the form of fragmented bodies, hybrids of humans, machines, animals and unfamiliar beings.