Edith Saldanha

SKIN.BODIES I is a visually striking video work in which artist Edith Saldanha explores how the body becomes a site where oppression and resistance meet. The focus lies on the skin and its materiality as a threshold for individual and collective memory.

Through image and sound, the work follows how bodies move through social and economic inequalities, and how they are reshaped by the violence these systems produce. Skin, as a surface, becomes a political space. A living archive of the forces that attempt to define, constrain, or erase the body. Bodies are caught between two false promises: the imperative to conform to dominant norms, and the instrumentalization of difference as a form of value.

Rather than proposing transformation within existing structures, SKIN.BODIES I invites us to reimagine the body beyond the frameworks that produce violence themselves.

SKIN.BODIES I marks the beginning of a triptych that centers the relationship between systemic violence and the body.