“ il corpo è il primo strumento che abbiamo; la pelle è il filo conduttore “
There are many ways to approach the world, but we do not realize that the first, very first tool of contact with the outside world is our own body.
A shell that separates what makes us up from the outside world, but puts them in continuous dialogue through a simple membrane: the skin.
It is from this realization that begins the artistic journey of Francesca Piovesan, a young artist born and raised in Aviano who is made up of many things, many facets, but who finds her balance by creating introspective works that offer the possibility of dialogue with the viewer.
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This particular series of works is the result of a collaboration with the Venice Academy of Fine Arts and artisans from Murano (VE) and consists of the imprint of different parts of Francesca's body imprinted on traditional Murano glass that is treated with silver nitrate¹ to develop the image, as is done with classic photographs, following the historic Venetian mirroring technique.
What is special about these developments is that Francesca never freezes them: "The body continues to work, I do not freeze the photographic process, even if it is considered a mistake, precisely because the intent is that it continues to work, that we see precisely the matricity of the material, we are like that we are constantly evolving".
Francesca does not aim to stop time, but to recount its passing as a witness to the finiteness of human experience.
On the same wavelength, she created the work ironically titled "Forever", which depicts the dissolution of a tattoo over about a year, debunking the myth of eternity
Her art is to show, to show but discreetly the fragilities that make our skin unique. This is the origin of Francesca's feminine exhibition at the Fuori Salone of the Salone del Mobile in Milan: five simple black paintings that upon contact with the warmth of the viewer's hand gently show scars and skin marks that make us more vulnerable in the eyes of others
These signs are the result of the body's ability to reorganize itself in the face of an unforeseen event, as Francesca demonstrates with the project "Nuove Formazioni" [New Formations], which represents a confrontation between her body - intact - and that of her mother marked by the struggle against an illness and the drugs to defeat it:
"In my work first the procedural part counts, and later comes the aesthetic balance."
A personal and delicate world, the balancing act of doing the right thing in the right place, reflected by a body that moves away from its classical representation to create new abstract artistic forms, this is Francesca.
¹ Note: Silver nitrate is an element that recurs in works made by Francesca even before the series "Gli Specchianti"
To follow Francesca's path between art, time and experimentation:
Facebook: Francesca Piovesan
Instagram: @piovefrancesca
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