ART_HISTORY / Municeddhe : le dormienti

Prometeo Gallery Ida Pisani is pleased to inaugurate, starting Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022, ART_HISTORY / Municeddhe : Le dormienti: first solo show of artist Tiziana Pers (Trivignano Udinese, 1974) in the spaces of Via Ventura 6. The exhibition is conceived as an integral part of ART_HISTORY: the artist's ongoing project built from time to time on the exchange - contractually regulated - between one of her paintings and one or more animals destined for slaughter. The protagonists of ART_HISTORY / Municeddhe : Le dormienti are eleven land snails - municeddhe - rescued from Pers and removed from that tragic process that begins with sale and ends with death: a path in which the animal ceases, step by step, to be a living body while becoming a mute 'instrument' destined for something else, inserted in a one-way practice of domination.

The spaces of Prometeo Gallery Ida Pisani become a living setting for this testimony in which art and life, theory and praxis, ethics and aesthetics are intertwined, while the different media used by the artist become clues to a subtle activism that acts and creates flaws in the infrastructure of the system, rather than flattening itself into a frontal and aesthetically spectacular critique. The municeddhe are silent and wandering: bodies considered "unproductive" because they live a different life without precise direction, and yet embody in their nomadic heart a fullness towards the world around them. In ART_HISTORY / Municeddhe : Le dormienti, Pers’ works make this aesthetic truth their own and amplify it into a concrete processuality made up of stories, relationships, signatures, and contracts, in which the animal-human and the animal-snail project themselves mutually, breaking down all boundaries: equal parts of the same living being.

Is it possible to assign an economic value to a living being? And to a work of art? Moving from these questions, and amplifying them, Pers's practice confronts the pervasiveness of the food industry - which commodifies and removes, physically and symbolically, the animal body - posing itself at the same time both as a denunciation and as the implementation of other and opposite relationships: short circuits of survival that suspend, from within, the deadly nature of this system.