«Alter Eva. Nature Power Body »at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence
Six Italian artists, together, to reflect on the future. The exhibition «Alter Eva. Nature Power Body “- staged from 28 October to 12 December at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence – sees the work of Camilla Alberti, Irene Coppola, Martina Melilli, Margherita Moscardini, Silvia Rosi And Marta Roberti, artists born between the Eighties and Nineties whose works, including sculpture, painting, photography and installation, compose a multi-faceted narrative where de-constructed or imaginative nature is flanked by exhibited or narrating bodies, and strong political statements dialogue with the stories intimate and personal of cultural belonging.
The six protagonists change and a commitment to for a transformation of the way we speak and act in the world. By questioning patriarchy, gender roles, the antagonism between nature and human beings, restrictive roles and power relations, the exhibition constructs alternative futures by proposing new possible forms of relationship.
The same name of the exhibition recalls the concept of Alter-Ego and refers to a model of woman that connects in a suggestive way to the scientific theory of mitochondrial Eve, a theory according to which all living beings live a line of female descent as DNA mitochondrial is handed down only in the matrilineal line. The exhibition therefore starts from a reflection on the links between every woman and her ancestors and extends to embrace the natural world, flora, fauna and interspecies connections, observing the lineage from an anthropological and biological perspective.
“Nature”, “Power” and “Body” then mirror the three cardinal principles of mediation with the outside world. The Nature that surrounds us and with which we have an original bond and a balance to be restored; Power, that is, the relationships that structure and organization of societies; the Body, as center and measure, as part of a complex system that continues beyond us.
Camilla Alberti, a visual artist engaged in the study of the ways in which the world comes to inhabited and inhabited resources, paying attention to the relationships between the different living species and the space that surrounds them, brings to the stage a series of shapes composed with organic fragments and industrial waste that forms composed with organic fragments and industrial waste that form the remains of creatures that never existed, as if we were in a natural science museum of the future.
Irene Coppola, an artist whose practice moves between scientific and anthropological studies, philosophical texts and empirical explorations focused on the concepts of memory and territory, instead exhibits casts of agaves and banana trees that crystallize vital energy. Through the decay of the plants it also reminds us of the perishable nature, the wounds and the fineness of the bodies.
Martina Melilli, artist, resista, author and cultural organizer interesting in history and imaginaries and collectives, she delves into the individualities of identities and culture, investigating how the latter affect the body of people and its movements. In the exhibition “Alter Eva”, Martina takes up the theme of the female body told in ten interviews published on the pages of Playboy and transformed into an immersive environment in which the clichés of female representation fail.
Margherita Moscardini instead it investigates the relationships between urban, social and natural transformation processes of specific geographies considered paradigmatic. His practice favors long-term projects that he develops through large-scale works, drawings, writings, sculptures and video-documents. In this exhibition he continues his relationship with the written word, presenting a neon sign taken from the text The origins of totalitarianism from Hannah Arendt, a message that recalls the failures of nation states and pushes us to rethink alternative forms of managing national citizenships and identities.
The Roman artist Marta Roberti he specializes instead in drawing, declining it in installations and animated videos through which he explores how Western culture shapes its own identity starting from what it perceives as “other”: from animals to nature, to everything that is considered different or “exotic” “”. On display, his large drawings, made on carbon paper sheets, recount visions of totemic animals and exotic landscapes, impalpable apparitions suspended in time.
In the end, Silvia Rosi, an artist who lives between London and Modena, retraces her own personal history in her work, drawing on the Togolese heritage of her family and the idea of origins. The theme is explored through self-portraits in which she interprets the parents, recounting their experience of migration from Togo to Italy. His images are influenced by the West African studio portrait tradition. The exhibition itinerary of «Alter Eva» ends with her photographic series and her video works, self-portraits in which Silvia plays the role of mother and father. An emotional transfer in which personal biography and collective stories of many families forced to leave their country merge. Different languages and artistic practices find a meeting line in a common feeling; the experiences of each artist present in the exhibition highlight a spirit of the time, where the female perspective, imbued with the will to change, has a specific weight.
The exhibition «Alter Eva. Natura Potere Corpo “is created by the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation with the collaboration of IED Firenze – Master in Curatorial Practice class 2020/2021 and is coordinated by Martino Margheri and by the teacher Daria Filardo. The project is part of «Palazzo Strozzi Future Art», a program inaugurated with the installation The wound from JR for the façade of Palazzo Strozzi, born from the collaboration with Andy Bianchedi in memory of Hillary Merkus Recordati. The initiative aims to create a platform for the art of the present, placing the promotion of creativity, the involvement of the public and support for the new generations as reference values for a relaunch of the cultural system through various initiatives that see the involvement of Italian and international contemporary artists at Palazzo Strozzi.
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