Capa Rota
Analog photography, monoprints, drypoint etching, single-channel video, camera-based performance | dec 2025
This work maps the friction between Hassani’s skin and the fractured surfaces of Buenos Aires. From the worn tiles of Constitución to the cracked pavements near Once, Aiman gathers the city’s damage: an involuntary script etched into its skin. Hassani pairs these urban textures with microscopic images of Aiman's own skin, drawing a shared vocabulary of pressure, memory, and refusal. The grid becomes a site of tension, not order: lines loop, hesitate, scar. They mark not decoration, but resistance.
Layered across print, glass, video, and gesture, the work asks: what does skin remember that concrete forgets? What remains after touch, weight, or disappearance?
In the video component, Hassani traces Aiman's own skin through the rhythm of Argentine tango and the ambient noise of the city. The camera moves in rhythmic pulls, from one patch of skin to another, guided by sound rather than spectacle. Skin here is not a dancer, but a landscape: filmed microscopically, fragment by fragment, it becomes a felt terrain. Rhythm emerges not from bodily performance, but from the gaze as it moves: across, around, and in between. Tango and city sounds don’t score a dance; they structure a way of looking, of sensing, of returning. Each medium carries its own friction: between body and structure, surface and imprint, imposed rhythm and embodied timing.