THE BODY'S RETURN TO HUMILITY
make up artist : Clarisse Darsoulant
The female body, freed from conventional norms, transcends the label of « nude / nu » as a political or social artwork.
Reclaiming its essence, it becomes lost in the density of the landscape and becomes again a natural element/phenomenon; like Tombolo wounded by the history and romanticized by legends. It is connected through its membrane, texture, and contours that blend and evolve like those of the islet.
The Tombolo of Sainte-Marie (Martinique) is a former colonial guardhouse builded , fortified, and protected. Subsequently, it transformed into a small commercial port facilitating trade between the sugar plantations of Sainte-Marie and the rest of the colony.
A Tombolo is a sandy isthmus, derived from the Latin "isthmus" and the ancient Greek "isthmos," meaning "narrow passage." The word may trace back to the Latin "tumulus," meaning "tomb," and "tumba," meaning "grave."
It is where I bury a compost of codes, fantasies, and taboos to develop a representation of the black female body, both robust and fragile, yet staged and resonating with the environment – like the environment itself, subjected to nothing but the force of (re)production. The body serves as a mediator between the sacred and the profane, the divine and the animal, magical and esoteric body of the muse coming with an infertile ground .
