METABIOLOGIES

THERAPY AS ART – Claudia Bonollo aka Sophia Cromatica

Su trabajo más importante, El cuerpo imaginado (anteriormente titulado Beauty Is Itself a Cure, 2002–2026), seleccionado en París por Les Rencontres Image et Science y CAMERA (Conseil Audiovisuel Mondial pour les Études et les Réalisations sur l’Art), se configura como una investigación multimedia y transversal. En él, el diálogo con la célula se transforma en una narración poética, articulada mediante patrones que varían según el órgano o la emoción que se busca activar.
Su práctica propone una concepción del arte como forma de terapia, integrando distintas hipótesis —incluidas perspectivas metafísicas— sobre el cuerpo y las emociones. Desde una apuesta por la empatía, investiga la sinestesia y los vínculos entre color, emoción y salud.
En esta línea, crea para el Colegio de Médicos la Ruta de la Vida —hoy exposición permanente—, un proyecto que busca sanar la memoria de un lugar mediante la combinación de biología, color y música, utilizando frecuencias específicas propias de la musicoterapia.

The video is also part of another parallel investigation that uses colour as a tool for constructing space. The videos and projections are self-sufficient works; however, the artist uses them as tools to create sensitive spaces (environments that combine real and virtual elements) where different levels of well-being can be experienced and where large-scale chromatic narratives can be interacted with, erasing the distance between the viewer and the artwork, and transforming the perception of colour into a personalised experience.

The cell is the absolute protagonist of my research, THE IMAGINED BODY. I have imagined, studied, and analysed it; I have transformed it with new life-giving movements, seduced it with lights and colours, healed it through my personal therapies, admired its beauty in my movements and narratives, and created spaces: ephemeral architectures and installations.

Like a contemporary ORPHEUS, I have engaged in dialogue with the cells. I have tried to comfort them with colours and movements, to reorient them according to visionary geography. BIOLOGY SOON TURNED INTO METABIOLOGY. The journey within the body has transformed into a series of different narrative cycles—a sort of visual and auditory diary marked by a cyclical nature in an exhausting process of emotional metamorphosis.

In my Chromatic Narratives, colour becomes a kind of storytelling, created by lights and colours in an endless dialogue with our inner landscape. Narration is a therapy in itself because it implies a movement of consciousness. It also involves a transformation. When you begin to tell a story, you end up with a different perception of yourself.

The visual material collected becomes a fragmentary narrative, and like any mythical tale, it is inevitably open to many different versions and as many interpretations. (Claudia Bonollo)

When it all began, I could never have suspected the evolution of the research, which meanwhile has extended to the entire human body, to the study of emotions, happiness, and the holographic paradigm (a controversial hypothesis from some scientific studies), nor that the transfigured cells would transform into a multidisciplinary project with multiple applications, developing a therapy as art.