Don't hurt me / BBB Johannes Deimling

I had the pleasure to see a durational performance called Don't hurt me from the German artist BBB Johannes Deimling.
It was in Berlin, in the Motion 5/Differential Performance Art Festival, curated by Richard Rabensaat.
I was laughing inside when I saw that not because it makes laugh but because I understood the ironic seriousness of the piece. I really identify with this artist. I can imagine myself doing his projects. Its not that I would do the same, of course, but the way I think art is very similar to him.
He thinks about performance as a way to construct a pictorial imagine. In that sense, I can say that he creates paintings but in a different medium.
Of course he is from a different generation, so he has the background and thoughts from his time. But, of course I consider him a big talent that has the capacity to see beyond time. He invents a time out of time and this is a genius characteristic. In my opinion a good work is that one that brings you to another time. Its almost as if you were death, has you had lost the notion of reality. Only a very strong and deep art piece can give you this sensation.
The content of each work is extremely complex but the ideas and materials he uses to express that are absolutely simple. Art should go from the complex to the simple. The most difficult is to communicate complex thoughts through simple actions or images. And simplicity is a childish characteristic. Kids are ingenious and ingenuity should take part in creation. 
I understand his work as a child game with an adult consciousness. When he is performing it appears that he is playing like a kid but in a very serious way. It is between these extremes of childhood and adult that he found his way of communicating his very peculiar world vision.
I had a fantastic conversation with the artist about this child aspect in art and the use of simple materials and we agreed that both things can be expressed in a material: chalk.
I did for one year an amount of projects using chalk as the main material to communicate different concepts and to express my ideas. Deimling used chalk in some of his performances too.
We spoke about chalk as the symbol of simplicity and childhood. Its incredible the amount of things you can say with just a small piece of chalk. Another thing that is interesting on this material is that its ephemeral and when you are talking about life, you are talking about death and this is talking about art. Because art is always a reflection about life and life contains death.
Deimling did four versions of this project and I had the luck to assist to the last version of Don't Hurt Me, which Deimling did by invitation from his friend Richard Rabensaat.
Through my interpretation, this work is a reflection about pain and suffering. The plaster stripes are a metaphor of his attempt to treat the life injuries. The amount of plaster stripes emphasizes the big number of disillusions or hurts you get from people or from dramatic events. 
The image he creates is both, strange and strong. He creates the illusion of deformation caused by so much suffering.
Being in public places personalizing that powerful image, he is at the same time showing his condition and trying to tell to people to look out about hurting people. We live in a society dominated by interests and people don't care about feelings.