Even When I’m Not Here
Chiara Ventura
09.11.24 - 12.01.25
Even When I’m Not Here is Chiara Ventura’s solo show for THEPÒSITO Art Space, the opening of the exhibition is part of the program of the 2024 edition of the event "RIGENERARSI" promoted by the Municipality of Narni.
The artist’s work explores the complex themes of interpersonal relationships, language and emotional expression, with a particular focus on contradictory exchange mechanisms between individuals. The exhibition invites us to reflect on what happens when communication is made difficult or impossible, when words fail or are censored and when reciprocity between bodies becomes a physical game of empties and fullness.
Chiara Ventura, Quello che provo a dirti, 30 x 20 cm, 2023, vacuum-sealed digitally processed image printed on coated paper, courtesy of the artist
Artist
(b. 1997, Verona - Italy)
She lives and works between Verona and Venezia. Her work is genuinely existential, where biography becomes a feature. Her paintings, always on the edge between figuration and abstraction, embody the macro-themes present in her sculptural, conceptual, and performative works. The analysis of the body, and the relationships and reactions it has with the psyche, emotionality, and the Other, has been the starting point for the development of a practice, predominantly performative, in which the uncomfortable and unprotected point, for the doer and the viewer, is the focus of attention. Ventura investigates denounces the most devious aspects of contemporary forms of violence and is interested in the political aspects of human behaviour. In 2020, she co-founded plurale, a concept that takes shape in collective art-making, a dynamic where the individual artist merges into a common perspective, a Zen practice of ego decentering.
