By Fondazione Near Onlus
CICATRICI
Taking part in the Scars project gave me the chance to talk about my pain and to accept the pain of those that accompanied me in this adventure: companions in a journey that will last a whole life, a life that must be shared and told in every possible way.
Scars has its own unique power: taking what we see as a defect or a weakness and making it art.
It’s asking yourself the question: “What is my scar?” It’s stopping for a moment and telling yourself a truth and then naively diving off a cliff as you start to reveal yourself. Sharing.
A-byss (2018)Fondazione Near Onlus
Taking on these physical marks weakens me, marks me, but at the same time strengthens me. My Venus is my portrait, the model of my body and of the imprints that have marked my body and my soul.
Scars was confidence, fear, understanding, emotion, sharing, personality, being alone, hugs, silences, smiles, tears, beauty.
It’s unveiling an artwork of which you are only partly the creator and recognising what you know about yourself, but also seeing something that you didn’t know.
The shell (2018)Fondazione Near Onlus
Scars gave shape to the monsters that we carry inside us with a great, liberating power. Once you have given these shadows a form, you can look at them and face them, like enemies that become easier to fight and overcome if you know them.
I didn’t think I would be able to create beauty through making an object out of my illness.
Scars gave shape to the monsters that we carry inside us with a great, liberating power. Once you have given these shadows a form, you can look at them and face them, like enemies that become easier to fight and overcome if you know them.
Scars is a visual and therapeutic awareness that transforms what would otherwise be pain and nothing else into something usable. It transforms it into works of art woven with passion and a dreamlike quality, and as such, leave a trace on the person looking at them.
Anxiety (2018)Fondazione Near Onlus
The Scars project represents a chance to look inside yourself. Showing your own scars caused by an illness is not easy. Even harder is showing the deeper scars. We are not made of flesh alone, we also have a soul and this, sadly, can be hurt just as much as the body.
In the hope of using this lacerated skin to unite us, the work is art – that is, the product of an experience and technology handed down by humans over thousands of years.
The Scars exhibition is a meeting point between art and technology, which are indissolubly connected to each other by the human experiences of every single participant. These experiences are often painful, they clamour to be told, to be ditched in order to lighten the load.
The Shadow (2018)Fondazione Near Onlus
Scars? It is collective genius to represent, relate and transcend the deep marks of the mind, so as to make them all more universal and less vulnerable. It is as much about rediscovering art as a cathartic gesture, capable of lifting man above his pain, and celebrate his story.
