{"id":2108,"date":"2018-02-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsmb-art.com\/?p=2108"},"modified":"2026-10-01T01:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T23:36:33","slug":"la-levedad-del-ser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/la-levedad-del-ser\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lightness of Being"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha \u2014 Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond, enlightenment, svaha.
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\nThis photographic series explores the threshold between selfhood and dissolution, presence and absence. Nude, wrapped in transparent plastic, the body becomes both visible and veiled \u2014 suspended between exposure and erasure. The plastic membrane becomes a metaphorical chrysalis, a second skin that hints at suffocation and rebirth.
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\nInspired by transcendental meditation (TM), this work investigates altered psycho-physiological states as liminal territories. Just as the Third Law of Thermodynamics implies the slowing of molecular motion toward absolute zero, TM evokes a subtle stillness \u2014 a descent into the ground state of consciousness. In this state, identity becomes fluid, the boundaries between inner and outer reality blur, and the body itself becomes an object of transformation.
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\nBy positioning myself within these transparent enclosures, I confront the fragile architecture of the self. These images are meditations on the feminine, the synthetic, the sacred, and the disembodied \u2014 a visual koan that asks: what remains when we surrender all forms?Photography. Each print is signed and numbered by the artist.Ships in a tube. Single Edition of 12. Size: 70x49cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BAI Fellows<\/em><\/a>, Open House of the Berlin Art Institute, artspring berlin, 26\u201327 May 2018, installed inside transparent plastic hanging from ceiling to floor<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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