snake skin, iron, 45x31x2,5cm
The work consists of a metal frame in the form of an e-mail icon, lined with snakeskin. The snake is for me one of the most tangible evocations of the alien as a threat, and more broadly an element whose symbolic significance interests me - from biblical tradition to mythology and the eternal return. Mail is a message formalized not as verbal content, but as a mere perception of threat, at once indefinite and fatal.
Exhibitions:
2022 emERgenze contempoRanEE (permanent), Museo della Città, Rimini, curated by Cristina Ambrosini, Claudia Collina, Giovanni Sassu
2020 Futuro. Arte e società dagli anni Sessanta a domani, Gallerie d’Italia, Vicenza, curated by Luca Beatrice and Walter Guadagnini
Pictures:
1-3 Mail (I), 2020
4-6 Mail (II), 2021, installation view at MAMbo, Nuovo Forno del Pane
7-9 Mail (III), 2022
Ph: Filippo Cecconi, Manuel Montesano
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