ABITO LO SPAZIO INTERIORE (I INHABIT AN INNER SPACE)
Li Biletska, Grazia Bivona, Marie Le Moigne, Sara Tonioni
In the Sala Lucernario we have chosen to create a dialogue between four projects which explore a more difficult, more complex dimension of inhabiting, that of inner space, where personal wounds, collective trauma and suffering may deposit and build up.
Despite originating from very different experiences, the works of Grazia Bivona, Sara Tonioni, Marie Le Moigne and Li Biletska share a strong performative, autobiographical aspect. The body becomes a place where tensions, memories and inner wounds are incarnated and transformed into image, word and matter, in the search for a possible transformation.
The site-specific displays, developed with the artists, bring this complexity to the space and invite the visitor to experience them physically, moving among suspended sheets, surfaces and volumes. In this way vulnerability takes on a spatial, perceptive form, something almost tangible.
The choice of the Sala Lucernario is deliberate. Light enters from above and the relationship with the sky creates an almost sacred dimension, accepting pain without dramatising it. The room becomes a space of suspension and respect, where fragility can be shown without sacrificing personal intimacy.
In Sotto la pelle, Grazia Bivona explores the wounds linked to eating disorders, highlighting how even after healing, they remain in the form of scars. The gesture of sewing, present in the photographs and the canvas which is presented with them, becomes a metaphor and a concrete practice through which to confront what has been lacerated.
In Chapter One: Home, by Sara Tononi, the home mutates from a place of protection to a source of suffering. The white thread which traps the artist in the images also invades the exhibition space, creating an environment where the visitor comes into contact with the tension between protection and coercion.
In Habiter le Trouble, Marie Le Moigne uses photography, video and writing to rielaborate her experience. The display expands this stratification into the surrounding space, inviting the visitor to move between different levels of reading, in which the autobiographical experience remains open, fragmented and explorable.
With Li Biletska we look into a wound which regards an entire community. In How does it feel? the artist gives shape through images and writing to the rage, impotence, pain and suspension caused by the war in her country. The words on the fabric, not always easy to decipher, also communicate the difficulty of completely accessing the experience of another.
In giving shape to these works, the four artists bring to the surface intimate and painful experiences without limiting their complexity. The Sala Lucernario becomes a space for communication, where wounds are shown without being exhibited and pain can transform into listening and recognition.
