Wearing Paint. Filippo de Pisis and the Bal des Quat’z’Arts in 1920s Paris

De Pisis’s botanical mimicry expressed in the form of body painting shows how nature itself is exposed as a colonised and out of place object, but also testifes to a biocultural history open to human-plant interspecies dialogue and aimed at understanding the human body as intertwined with other bodies and the environment.