by Zhenya Gershman, Artist & Art Historian, Co-Founder, Project AWE
What if the body is turned into a canvas?
What if a painting is made on the skin?
What if ancestors are made visible portrayed directly on their relative?
What if the portrait is animated by the movement of the body?
Skin-4, short film by Carlos Hurtado
SKIN-4 is a powerful collaboration between the renowned painter Zhenya Gershman, performance artist Annabel Simma, photographer Michele Mattei, and Oscar nominated filmmaker Carlos A. Hurtado, blurring the accepted boundary between past and present, living and dead, still and animate, 'me' and 'us'.
"Freedom of expression with a focus that can touch those who carry the song and the visual memories of immigrant ancestry."
-- M A Greenstein
image credit: Michelle Mattei Photography painted by Zhenya Gershman
