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About

The video-project by Camilla Marinoni (Bergamo, 1979) tells us about her world and her versatile artistic language that takes on very topical themes, from emptiness to wounds, from care to the meaning of memory.

Crochet is a constant presence in the artist's works. Marinoni sews the wounds, Embroider the Void, the only viaticum for sensoriality and the defense of life, with a ritual that transforms and celebrates itself as a regenerative source. Her research through embroidery constitutes a powerful means of female vindication, of identity expression and of self-narration, a different language.

The thread becomes the medium of a deeper meaning, memory, awareness, and pain that turns into vacuous silence. Threads bring back memories, intertwine stories, that try to fill invisible gaps full of indelible traces. Care becomes central in this path, the invisible thread binds all the artist's poetics.

Soul injuries that each of us carries with us and that they find themselves in a deep and temporary solitude. As an eloquent witness of what life-death, as a cyclical and natural passage, is a desire to share pain and trauma. In a society that is oriented to exhibit its wounds, and in so doing to declare an aesthetic ideal (just think of the media effect we suffer every day), Camilla Marinoni takes us back to the archetypal and ancestral dimension, to the primordial ecstatic of our sacred.

Art as a reparative intention, testifying that the creative process soothes physical and psychological wounds and becomes their irreparable Cure.
On this occasion, the new series of drawings Born to begin will also be presented. Our mortal condition is alleviated by our relentless desire to do, to action:

“The course of human life - writes Hannah Arendt - directed towards death would inevitably lead every human being to ruin and destruction were it not for the ability to interrupt it and start something new, a faculty that is inherent in action, and there permanently remembers that human beings, even if they must die, were not born to die, but to begin".

Biographicals Notes

Camilla Marinoni was born in Bergamo in 1979 where she currently lives and works. She graduated in Sculpture from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan where she obtained a specialist degree in Contemporary Sacred Art. The social and spiritual aspects of everyday life coexist at the center of her work. The emptiness, wounds, care and the themes of the female world are the starting point for a reflection on the meaning of our existence. Her works are present in private and public collections both in Italy and abroad.