Women | Matter

Women | Matter. An exhibition with four female voices. Don’t expect them to be sweet and melodic, though. They are more like the wild howls of a she-wolf.
Lea Vergine, art critic of the seventies, wrote: “It is useless for the viewer to look for something in the vision of a work of art that will comfort her. She will only find something that will tear her apart. It will be up to her to decide how to use it”.
Sure, you say, but those were years of social, political and ideal struggles!

Perhaps these present years are not equally so?

The voice of these four artists rises in unison to make us flinch. Sharp shards of porcelain are there to hurt us, shapeless heaps of pottery and woolen casings writhing, crawling across the floor. The work, even when it comes in the form of small votive idols, is not a soothing balm, but an amplifier of shadows. “Art”, Lea Vergine explained, “is not a matter of respectable people”.

Barbara Pelizzon’s artistic research refers to the poor, to the recovery of old objects in which, according to the artist, memories, energies and emotions are stored, waiting to receive new possibilities of expression. The artist’s attention is captured by the most varied objects: from grates of confessionals, witnesses of the sense of guilt, to the fibres of mattresses, “catalysts of our dreams, which we deposit during sleep”. Barbara is also sensitive to the themes of the female universe, of which she proposes, through newspaper clippings and dolls, a raw and violent reading in relation to modern society.

Naomi Eller is an artist from Melbourne, Australia. Her ceramic works recall apparently primordial forms, which carry the residues of memory and the weight of the passage of time, but also an almost shamanic charisma. With paper, on the other hand, he creates a sort of talisman in two dimensions, perhaps three, as it is easy to get lost in the plots of painting, mixed with collage. Her works on paper inhabit the space of the sheet in alternative ways. Natural and abstract silhouettes, but also almost pictographic codes, manage to capture the itineraries of thoughts in the mind.... read the rest of the article»