MATERNA_MENTE

Materna_mente: the show's title sums up the theme of which lead back to the work of Elizabeth Di Sopra and Marija Markovic, but the splitting in two of the adverb indicates immediately duplicity, to limit an opposition: both the "mother" brings a feeling to secure abandoned trust, and a sphere of positive meaning and somehow "hot", usually associated with the figure of the mother, the "mind" can be synonymous with common sense, "cold" rational control of the phenomena, but also conversely, the subliminal consciousness of a world where they nest instincts, impulses, fears. So if the mother is warm and good time, the mind is colder, polysemic, ambiguous and "bad." On this facet of meanings play the works of the two artists, who established between them a relationship of mirroring and this is an interesting aspect of the exhibition, which compares very different interpretations of the same theme. Different, however, both eminently exquisitely feminine - and this should be noted: this "feel woman" who knows how to dig so deep in the feminine and bring to light both fears and obsessions as an elusive, indefinable sweetness.

Curator, Chiara Tavella