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2021 | installation, variable dimensions/glazed ceramic elements with lustro technique, Spazio su, Lecce (IT)

Fataità is a Venetian dialect word, used in everyday language, that lends itself to various meanings and in- terpretations. It is often pronounced to stigmatize an event that knows no practical or logical explanation, an unexpected event that upsets plans and radically changes one’s gaze and perspective on things.
The installation project is nourished by various encounters, conversations, letters, exchanges of ideas, about the meaning of interpersonal bonds and the degree of awareness of the role one plays within a rela- tionship.

Freely based on Elefanteide, storia verissima di un elefante, a satirical erotic poem by Pietro Buratti (1819), the story tells the vicissitudes of an embittered elephantess on the run among the calli of the lagoon, in search of a quiet place to practice autoeroticism.Fataità is the explosion of a detail: the game of checkers within the harems inhabited by Matisse’s odalisques, women immersed in a passive atmosphere of wai- ting and silence. The checkers orient their movements in space by sniffing the direction from a primitive, wild female instinct, in which the possibility of an ambiguous, morphologically hybrid sexuality opens up a playground of possibilities and dialogue that is different each time. The relationship between the two sculptural entities generates an energy field activated by the presence of the viewer who brings inside the installation the time of reality; involved in a hypothetical dialogue between two parties he breaks into a game in which it is not important to know the rules but, from time to time, it is the different positions of the individual elements that tell about different power dynamics and role plays.

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