Nude
Madrid, Spain 2019
(Microorganic skin cultivated by Elena and Marta)
Exhibited at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSAM), 2018; Casa Antillón, 2019; Casabanchel, 2019
With Marta Ochoa
Photo by Daniel Jordán Pompa
Metallic piece by Begoña Escudero
Nude started as a research project by Marta Ochoa and Elena Rocabert about potential sustainable materials. The material is generated through the fermentation of kombucha. This process of fermentation generates a gelatinous layer that floats on the surface (SCOBY) and that after a few months of cultivation, is sewn and turned into a new skin. Nude is a process whose only meaning is experimentation. It is materialized as a barrier, as a limit, a connection or a bridge that links you with the universe and it supports an attitude. It is a physical, immodest and shameless threshold that striates, tears up, feels and suffers. While it covers and surrounds you, grows old and wrinkles like our own skin, changes its texture, color, weight and smell. It follows no other trend than the passage of time. Nude lacks size and a specific form. It is formed after the completion of a unique fermentation process and dies by decomposition. While the skin suffers and deteriorates over the years, the being is years, the being is forged on the basis of experiences and emotions that leave the skin with the scars of what it has experienced, the tissue is oxidised by micro-organisms in contact with aluminium. On the other hand, this metal retains its purity throughout the entire process without corroding. Clean and pure.
