After many years devoted to exploring the human emotional body and its wounds, this new series marks a significant evolution in my artistic approach. Anima Corpus offers a renewed perspective on my work by introducing a more archaic, more instinctive dimension: that of our animal side.

This is not an animal series in the traditional sense, but rather an attempt at hybridization between our humanity and the remnants of animality that persist within us. A deep resonance, often stifled, that calls for a return to our roots—not as a regression, but as a vital reconnection.

Our society values mental constructs, conformity to norms, and adaptation to collective frameworks. In striving to meet these expectations, we often end up severing ourselves from our fundamental impulses. These inner distortions, these daily paradoxes, create a kind of dissonance within us, a detachment from our true needs.

Anima Corpus is therefore a continuation of my reflection on the human condition, now incorporating this forgotten dimension: our connection to instinct, to intuition, to a form of primitive bodily wisdom. Some may see it as a call to return to nature. For my part, I see it more as a quest for balance, for a more accurate and harmonious internal alignment.

In these uncertain times, when our reference points are faltering and the role of human beings on Earth is increasingly questioned, I feel the need to return to what is essential—to reexamine our relationship with life, with our own material being.

Clay, in fact, has always been the foundational material of my work. For this series, I have chosen to give it a new finish, in keeping with the spirit of the project: a lime-based patina, raw and mineral, which reinforces this organic connection to matter, to memory, to origins.

Pascal Borghi sculptures