An Educational-Artistic Exhibition on the Main Dermatoses: "PEAUrigami ® [Dermatogami]"

The skin is a cutaneous paper, more precisely "the paper of self," which covers the entire body. Origami is the art of paper-folding. SKIN and ORIGAMI, beyond the word play around paper, are similar in several respects-the polygonal network, the basic folds, and pleat folding. The idea of producing artwork connecting the cutaneous physiology of the skin with the art of origami is meant to pay an artistic tribute to the skin. We firstly took photographs of different skins, with different magnifications, which were developed on different-sized squares of paper in order to make folded structures. With skin physiology being reinterpreted through origami in this way, we logically called this first educational--artistic exhibition PEAUrigami associating the French word "peau" (skin) with "origami." After PEAUrigami® dedicated to the physiology of the skin, exhibited during the European Academy of Dermato-Venereology (EADV) 2019 Congress in Madrid, Spain, I continued my creative work on skin with the artistic reinterpretation of the main dermatoses within the framework of the PEAUrigami® [DERMATOGAMI] exhibition. This exhibition, which will be presented at the EADV 2020 Congress in Vienna, Austria, in October 2020, is created from photos of skin affected by the main dermatoses and is based on the etymology of the dermatosis presented. The Greek or Latin origin of the Dermatosis is translated visually via the art of Japanese paper-folding. So, "acne" from the Greek term ακμή (akmế), which means "tip", "summit," will be reinterpreted via a pointed origami structure produced from photos of the skin of acne sufferers. (SKINmed. 2021;19:-0).