Original artwork description:

SETTIMANA SANTA A TRANI- (Holy Week in Trani) -
Awarded work. Rassegna d'Arte Contemporanea Giovinazzo - Bari - Natiolum National Prize 2014.
- In this series, I created predominantly surrealist works concerning the ‘Sacred and Profane’. Explicit references to late-medieval mysticism are clearly visible on female bodies, naked, marked by instruments of suffering, such as nails and spines driven into the neck and almost everywhere on the bodies themselves. In some works, the sacrifice of a naked woman, hung on a cross in place of Christ, is exalted, yet another forcing to break completely, without hesitation, with the hieratic tradition of the supernatural.
Here we notice in the background Trani Cathedral, invaded by many women wearing black dresses and black veils covering their heads. The work is inspired by the processions in use in southern Italy, in the pre-Easter period, precisely during Holy Week.
I used red enamel to dramatise the space in front of the holy place with all those barefoot women atoning for the many sins of all humanity. I combined the graphics of the cathedral with digital processing in a mixed technique full of spirituality and materiality, to bring you poetic and sometimes grim, but authentic and alive stories.

Materials used:

enamel and varnish on panel of wood

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