ABOUT VIRGINIA SERAFINI
"THERE IS A UNIQUE TANGIBLE ELEMENT WHICH I BELIEVE BINDS ART AND FASHION, THE BODY"
VIRGINIA SERAFINI
Based in London and having completed my Foundation at The Royal Drawing School, achieving Distinction, I have recently graduated in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins. Please find a link to my recent graduate showcase here.
Throughout my practice, I utilise the body as a prop for experimental and display purposes. Interweaving art disciplines with the aesthetics of fashion through the exploration of photography, allows me to challenge the boundaries of how the body is seen.
My work looks at the body as a research object transitioned into other strangely ambivalent forms that play with the viewer's perceptions of what we know and what we think we are seeing through concealing and revealing. Falk Heinlich states that ‘flesh and idea are intertwined in that the body reflects on itself in the act of perception and, one could add, action’. By the same token, it could be argued that that those who witness bodies can feel the emotions of the ones they observe. Through a body-to-body transmission, a ‘theoretical intake’ of one another has taken place, forming a relationship between the audience and performer. I look to develop my practice further by exploring the use of performance within photography and investigate the role of the body in relation to costume. I intend to understand the relationship one has with their external appearance, aesthetic, and its potential to transform the inner self through photography.
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