Processi di domesticazione espansa

Processi di domesticazione espansa (Processes of expanded domestication) presents the results of the research conducted by the artist in the botanical collection of the Museum of Natural History in Verona and the period of residence, flanked by students from the Academy of Fine Arts in Verona, at Villa Verità Fraccaroli in San Pietro di Lavagno, Verona.

Borrowing the control stations on stilts used in the past to monitor vineyards and ecosystems in the area — from wild plants to animals — the artist subverts the traditional hierarchy of power that sees human beings at the top and builds a new device inhabited and directed by hybrid creatures. The installation of innocent tubes — patinated through the process of tropicalisation of the metal — in fact hosts an unprecedented ecosystem on its summit: organic-shaped elements made in aluminium are presented as wrappings, powerful and at the same time fragile armatures capable of restoring stability to an earth caught in the grip of change. Here a series of sculptures take their place, the result of the union of animal and plant forms with anthropised characters found in the Roman bas-reliefs of Villa Verità Fraccaroli.