Federico Arani: Study for Dowsing

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The works in Federico Arani’s exhibition for Commonage Projects explore an innate relationship with the concealed, a sifting through the earth, a reclaiming of the abandoned and an excavation of the uncanny. They represent a new development in his practice after much research and experimentation with nickel electroforming, an alchemical and transformative process. Various artefacts salvaged from underground, including lead figures, bullet casings, metamorphosise with organic specimens, decaying branches and found fossils to become new ageless forms, hybrids of the natural and synthetic, the found and hand-crafted.