The Past is not Law

Through the investigation of books and engravings from the 19th and early 20th centuries that she hunts and collects patiently, Madame re-elaborates the formal heritage of the past, attributing a new and modern meaning to forms that have survived the passing of time. Moving to Rome she was interested in the representation of the human sense of piety, trying to imagine an atheistic version of an iconography that – in the urban imagination – is almost always imbued with religiosity, leaving behind herself both the vatican statue of Michelangelo and the Pasolini’s portraits of Ernest Pignon-Ernest appeared on the walls of Rome in 2015. Moving in the wake of the thought of the art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929), Madame focuses on the meaning of visible forms, aiming to understand what they say about the men and women who produce them and venerate them, rather than simply observe how they represent reality.