From medieval relics to Body Art, the body and its organic elements - bones, skin, fluids and secretions - have often been at the center of anthropological and historical-artistic studies. \n If during the Middle Ages there was a contrast between the brutality of organic matter and the splendour of the reliquaries that contain it, in the centuries of modernity, the rigor of scientific investigation has often counteracted a morbid complacency for physical decay. This fascination translated into radical artistic practices with the twentieth century: from 'Artist's Shit' to Mat Collishaw, the contemporary body ceases to be only a subject and becomes a raw material, exploring the boundaries between sacred, obscene and everyday life. \n Maria Bergamo, Pasquale Fameli, Fabrizio Lollini and Tommaso Pasquali talk
