Skin
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Skin
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Composer
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Gemma Peacocke
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For the last few years - since moving to the United States - I've been trying to understand the (white) American idea of race and the relationship between violence and sexuality. My immigrant's sense of curiosity about the American fixation on skin has gradually stretched into tendrils of understanding, wending between the intricate layers of privilege, power, and shame associated with race and with sex, down into the dark roots of the country's history.
Skin is the meeting point of our bodies with the world through which we move. It is a place of weathering, of impact, of touch. It is a signifier to others of who we are, for how long we have lived, and where we come from. I wrote Skin as a rumination on the way in which our skin pushes up against truth; engendering both real identities and constructions of the self.
Gemma Peacocke