flor da pele

In Flor da Pele, Bruno Silva has the unusual and involuntary collaboration of Augustin Cabanès (1862-1928), a French doctor and lover of the arts who studied its relationship with medicine. Taking Esculape chez les Artistes as his starting point, a book published by Cabanès in 1928, Bruno Silva goes beyond the obvious relationships established in this essay and expounds on the skin, not just as a casing or a thin translucent film that hides the inside and protects it from the outside, but also as a plastic support, moldable and capable of holding images. These ambivalences are, in fact, common in Bruno Silva's practice and are often highlighted through assemblages of unusual materials and free associations, similar to the digestive process in which disparate ingredients are ingested, digested and transformed. A multiple was released by esculápio artist editions.