It suits me well
Video, Video Installation
2015
It Suits Me Well (2015) by Martina Menegon is a video installation that captures the intimate and performative attempts to reconnect digital and physical bodies. Using photogrammetry, the artist’s body is digitized, and its UV map texture—a detailed image of the skin that wraps around the virtual 3D model—has been printed in its untouched, original form and scale on semi-transparent synthetic silk fabric. Standing before her webcam, the artist records her attempts to remap this digitized skin onto her physical body.
At the heart of the work, the body serves as both the subject and platform of expression, while digital media is used to re-materialize it, exploring the liminal space between the physical and the virtual, flesh and data. Through its intimate yet intricate interplay of the corporeal and the synthetic, It Suits Me Well reflects on the virtual as an extension of our lived reality, echoing a modern interpretation of what Lacan describes as “paranoiac knowledge”: a necessity to engage with our virtual image to navigate our relationship with the self, both in its physical and digital forms.