Elena Damiani. Weather Bodies

Francesca Minini is pleased to announce Weather Bodies, a solo exhibition by Elena Damiani. The exhibition reflects on the multiple dimensions of the concepts of weather and weathering, examining their roles as transformative forces that surpass human perception while deeply shaping material and ecological processes. Weather is understood as both fleeting and expansive—a storm, a season, and an agent of geological and ecological change. To weather is to endure and transform, an ongoing interplay of forces that destabilizes fixed notions of matter and form.

This framework informs the works on view, in which Damiani draws attention to the interconnectivity between organic and inorganic realms. The sculptures, made from marble, travertine, copper, and bronze, resemble plant-like shapes, cellular forms, and traces of vitality embedded in mineral substrates. These compositions explore the porous boundaries between life and non-life, engaging with themes of decay, resilience, and mutual transformation. The materials, shaped over millennia by planetary processes, actively participate in this dialogue, embodying histories of change, adaptation, and reconfiguration.

Weather Bodies expands upon Damiani's ongoing exploration of materiality and temporality, positioning weather as a condition of co-constitution between bodies and environments. The exhibition represents a continuation of the artist's interest in geological and ecological processes, employing sculptural forms to propose a shared and evolving understanding of a world in flux and of the interdependence of all things. By collapsing the distinctions between the human and the geological, the temporal and the timeless, Damiani proposes a reconsideration of the dynamic processes that shape our world and ourselves.

The exhibition will be the third part of a project that began in 2020 and whose first part titled ENSAYOS DE LO SOLIDO was presented at the MAC Museum of Contemporary Art Lima in June 2022, and a second part titled MINERAL WAYS at Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm in November 2022.

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