yourself in my shoes

yourself in my shoes-Naomi Boiko Stapleton, Margaux Bricler, Kora Moya Rojo, Xueqing Zhu

18th January | 18th February 2023

Opening 18th January from 6 pm

The exhibition brings together four female artists who have in common the hybridisation of the female body with other elements of the animal and plant world in different shapes and with different interactions. The works of the artists in the exhibition reflect the discovery, which is typical of contemporary society, of the complexity of the identification and self-representation of the human being. The human body today is conceived as a changing, transitory reality, defined by cultural context. Art does not offer us an answer in resolving the chaos of the contemporary, but rather leads us towards an awareness and a new conception of life. The artists in the exhibition have decided to accept the challenge with the animal and the natural world, abandoning their anthropocentrism (man at the centre of things, the measure of things) in order to cohabit and to co-evolve with animals and plants, representing a reality made of alterity. The morphing process found in these works is very material and visceral, even in the most dreamlike works, but it leads - contrary to digital morphing - to an even sharper and more predominant definition of the female character. A change that amplifies figuration and opens up to multiple meanings and interpretations and ultimately enhances and returns to the body and female sensuality which emerges almost reinforced.