CAROLINA CIUCCIO

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The first part of the work is a performance that took place in an old house in a Neapolitan building of the 17th century that had to be restored. It is placed in the historical city center and it then became the artist’s home-atelier. A dark figure – a silhouette – with a faceless body and without identity moves itself in the rooms and interacts with the space around. Such figure takes different shapes, while started to reveal herself and cut out some empty areas. By doing so, she explores the materia, the dust and the rubbles so to become part of them. This human figure struggles to get her light back and to reborn through the contact with the dust and the residual materials coming from the past. This action has been captured in the video In the Rubble (7′). The second part of the work it is the plastic reworking of the recovered materials, in particular the false ceiling. A complex material, which testifies a longer story and has taken deep significances charm linked to that. It is made by four layers: jute canvas, newspapers sheets, paper and plaster. The material itself is deeply symbolic and full of beauty and memories. The artist plays firstly with these materials during the performance, by peeling off layer after layer, so to creates a story within the stories, then making the re-elaborations in a new work.