Terrestre by Binta Diaw
The image is taken from the video performance Essere Corpo, a sensory exploration that restores the body’s original role as a bridge between humans and nature. Through movement, the artist seeks to dissolve the layers imposed by a patriarchal and capitalist reality that separates, controls and forgets. The body becomes a living archive of oppression and memory, but also a place of rebirth: a realm in which primordial origins re-emerge as a pulsating force.
The dance with the earth is not a representation but a ritual – a gesture of recomposition that restores continuity between what has been divided. In the interplay between body and landscape, the artist recognises an ancient, shared and feminine form of knowledge in which humanity and nature reflect one another. This demonstrates how nature can be seen as a common good rooted in ancient traditions.
In this cyclical dimension of loss and return, black and white becomes an essential language, capable of bringing out the purity of movement and the rhythm of breath.