Nathalie De Zan Barsky Gallery

There is art

There is art, inscribed on all the domes of the world, engraved in marble: Sculpture, Painting, Engraving and Architecture; and now with Nathalie De Zan there is the Pure Body. Purity of a frozen moment, a moment bound by invisible silk ropes, tied to disappearing and unnoticeable velvet chains. An undetectable and elusive bondage by way of the quixotic curling ribbon, unmoored and unpunishable, A faceless bondage that ensures and assumes and liberates the body. By hiding the face whose disturbing countenance would direct our eyes, we clearly distinguish an erotic suspension, a naked and avowable gesture, in which all the curves spring into a space with mysterious radiance. An impassioned body of great beauty, glorious, sumptuous and flamboyant, it evokes the pagan goddesses and that most majestic human being: woman. A body neither altered nor adjusted in its essence, a lone digital caress that brushes the photographic grain, for it is also photography. The framing and mounting become a hymn to the mysterious character of femininity. Undetectable gymnastic and geometric figures balance themselves in a living dance, stabilizing then seeming to rest. Under this anonymity, one reveals all of the body, an idol, an airy corpus whose constraints of gravity beget the problematics of the pedestal that never disappears.