Retrospettiva

Portrait and self-portrait traditionally highlight the beauty, character and importance of the subject, “they reproduce, mostly from life, with the means of the figurative arts or with photography”, as the dictionary of the Italian language states. In other cases they become pretexts for linguistic studies.

What interests me is the inexorable and concrete impact with reality, the banging of the face against a wall devoid of any symbolic value.

For a year, day after day, I created threehundredandsixtyfive self-portraits in ceramic and every day I let them fall to the ground, deforming their facial features. The faces, all the same and different from each other, create an abstract calendar, evoking a whirlwind of experiences, sensations without selection and simply surveyed in their complete crudeness. Sounds and noises that surround the environment are reminiscent of a present experience, life seen as it happens under the placenta.