Eternity, her responsive body and other stories,

Eternity, her responsive body and other stories,

The Noble Floor of Palazzo Collicola museum hosts Eternity, her responsive body and other stories, solo show by Petra Feriancová (Bratislava, Slovakia, 1977) curated by Tiago de Abreu Pinto and Davide Silvioli. The title of the exhibithion suggests the narrative nature of the project, in which the artist reinterpret the spaces of Palazzo Collicola, through a series of interventions with an almost mimetic character and conceived for this occasion. The expositive project includes a group of different works, as sculptures, installations and sound works that dialogue, in contrast or in syntony, with the rooms of the Noble Floor and the artworks of the collection here preserved. In addition to these, there is a couple of marble heads of frederician era, dated XIII century and coming from the municipal art depository of Santo Chiodo, in Spoleto: these kind of artefacts are no longer shown to the public because they have been damaged by events and consumed by the passage of time, which Feriancová has identified precisely because of their character as 'compromised works', a symbol of vulnerability. In this way, works belonging to different periods, beyond any historical hierarchies, will dialogue together, according to associations of meaning and highlighting topics such as metamorphosis, the concept of memory, of interpretation and archive, which have always been central to Feriancová's artistic practice. The exhibition is organized with funds from the Slovak Arts Council and with the support of the Gilda Lavia Gallery in Rome.

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