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l'ultimo utero sulla terra / the last utero on earth 

palermo, 2015, Palazzo Riso

L'ULTIMO UTERO SULLA TERRA, è stato un progetto realizzato per Palazzo Riso, Polo Museale Regionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Palermo.

Si è formalizzato in un’installazione site specific che comprendeva un antico camino dismesso presente in uno dei saloni del palazzo. La struttura interna del camino era totalmente a vista e ricordava la sagoma di un utero, il corpo centrale e le tube. L’anomalìa era rappresentata dal fatto che non era rivolto verso il basso, verso la terra, ma verso l’alto, verso "l’altrove". Il mio intervento è consistito nell'inserire una scultura sferica, simboleggiante un embrione in precarie condizioni, come tutto il resto, e sottolineare quindi questa anomalia. L’immagine comune di “mettere al mondo” veniva quindi ribaltata.

THE LAST UTERO ON EARTH, was a site-specific project realized for Palazzo Riso, Regional Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Palermo.
It was formalized in a site-specific installation that included an old disused fireplace in one of the halls of the building. The internal structure of the fireplace was completely visible and reminded me of the shape of a uterus, at the sides of the tubes and at the center the neck of the uterus. The anomaly was represented by the fact that it was not facing downwards, towards the earth, but upwards, towards the "elsewhere". My intervention consisted in inserting a spherical sculpture, symbolizing an embryo in precarious conditions, like everything else, and then underlining this anomaly. The common image of "putting to the world" was then reversed.

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ARTIST STATEMENT
It is exactly as a psychoanalysis’s session.
Step by step I go in search of those sensations that remain submerged in the unconscious and that most influence the soul’s state, provoked in turn by the most significant events of existence: the encounters, the losses, the fundamental bonds, the conquests and failures, the falls and rebirths, the relationship between human beings, nature and God.
My “inspiration’s source” are the events that condition the human soul and how it reacts. Those events that leave deep marks, scars, in our unconscious which in turn tries to hide them. So I whatch on my biography, my past or what happens every day and that inevitably affects my balance, my psyche.
I am trying to create my own vocabulary of images composed by natural elements, such as trees linked together, roots, branches that break, or elements that constitute barriers, limits, boundaries or paths.

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