2024 // Metamorfosi / Collective Exhibition / London, UK
Collective exhibition curated by Proposition Studios team: Alice Black, Siena Venturino-Malcherczyk
June 7th – June 16th, 2024
Proposition Studio – Camden
100 Chalk Farm Road, London UK
Senza più forze, vinta dalla fatica di quella corsa
allo spasimo, si rivolge alle correnti del Peneo e:
«Aiutami, padre», dice. «Se voi fiumi avete qualche potere,
dissolvi, mutandole, queste mie fattezze per cui troppo piacqui».
Ancora prega, che un torpore profondo pervade le sue membra,
il petto morbido si fascia di fibre sottili,
i capelli si allungano in fronde, le braccia in rami;
Le metamorfosi di Ovidio, Libro Primo, vv. 545-50
Title: Metamorfosi, Anfibia II
Year: 2022
Dimensions: 140 x 200 cm
Technique/medium: Mixed media scan, leaf, Epipremnum aureum roots, saliva, water-based lubricant, body parts. Printed on synthetic silk.
Series: Metamorfosi
Her strength spent, pale and faint, with pleading eyes
she gazed upon her father's waves and prayed,
“Help me my father, if thy flowing streams
have virtue! Cover me, O mother Earth!
Destroy the beauty that has injured me,
or change the body that destroys my life.”
Before her prayer was ended, torpor seized
on all her body, and a thin bark closed
around her gentle bosom, and her hair
became as moving leaves; her arms were changed
to waving branches, and her active feet
as clinging roots were fastened to the ground—
her face was hidden with encircling leaves.—
Ovid. Metamorphoses, Book 1, lines 545-50