Body Scanner

Biographie

Born in 1977, Anna Maria De Antoniis studied drawing and painting before specializing in the teaching of visual arts and the history of art. Since 2004 she has been a teacher at the Viterbo Academy of Art, as well as giving lessons in secondary schools. She has been exhibiting her photographic work since 1998. At present Anna Maria is pursuing her research into digital technology and new languages in art.

Présentation

Body scanners are those machines which, in certain airports and without regard for the intimacy of the individual, probe and scrutinize the body. Anna Maria De Antoniis’ images, which show the human body dismembered, recomposed and sewn together, are perhaps a metaphor for what menaces, in reality or in our imagination, the bodies of our contemporaries. On the one hand the spread of the terrorist risk to all places and all situations around the world. On the other, a security network more and more intense, that, in the name of protection, makes each of us a potential threat.