Carte d'identité
By: Patrizia Meinert
Publisher: P. Meinert
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Leipzig
Language: ger
Subjects: Maps in art; Human figure in art
Notes: "Küsten oder Kaps ganz privat Schuppenflechten Begierden eintätowiert Vorgebirge und Falten bunstschillernd"--Cover of folder.

Text fragments taken from Michel Serres: The Five Senses : A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies.

Body print on Kozo Muji paper, 40 g.; silkscreen, embossing and color edging.

"When I came across Michel Serres' The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies I knew it had to be a map. According to Serres our skin is like a landscape which bears the traces of what we experience in our lives. He describes this idea using poetic comparisons and paraphrases. I collected the words that seemed substantial to me and put them in an alphabetical order. After printing the body map I started to connect the different zones of my body with these words by setting up a coordinate system. This intimate and subjective examination as well as the immediacy caused by the direct contact of skin and paper makes the Carte d'identité a very personal work." -- mcbaprize.org/patrizia-meinert-carte-didentite (viewed March 15, 2018)