The World Body Project is a huge project of contemporary art. It’s a work which is going to involve people of completely different places and culture. It proposes to involve the whole planet in the displacement of a body, an omnipresent body, a world body.

The idea of this project came some time ago by a phrase in my mind: “Please, take my body to see the world”.

This phrase showed well this almost pathological someone’s need of wondering what exists beyond the horizon.

This work discuss many questions related to body and its replacement around the world, the limitations of our body regarding space, the world where we live and everything that body’s short lifetime stops us to see and live.

The propose is create the idea of a body which can break phisical and social barrier and borders somehow and can displace throughout the world that way. A body that metamorphoses into an idea, in a representation to get to places that wouldn’t be possible, otherwise. In order to reach that, this body uses other bodies as a way to move from place to place almost like a host.

In order to make it works I needed something that could move (the people’s bodies who will participate of this project, in this case) and something where this body (a conceptual one) could be. T-shirt was the chosen because it is considered as a universal piece of clothing, worn in most of the countries around the world.

The work also discusses questions related to the proper art, how profitable it is and its perenniality. I am less and less interested in art as a work of art, that physical object that has to be kept, adored, venerated, coveted, owned by few and that so many times ends up in a basement of a museum or in a bank safe.

Nowadays I am interested in art more as an experience than as an object. An art that involves people who do not know what art is or that one which metamorphoses in something unsuspected to cause dialogues, meetings. I like those meetings, this doubt generated before the unknown, the unexpected, the thing with unclear answers.

I don’t make art for laypeople or intellectuals; instead I make art for people who I’ve known and people who I’ve never met, people who I never will see but that I certainly can meet through my art.

I like art that moves....

That loses sight of....

That finds itself...

Or that is found...