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.
In a hyper-connected world, where digital language accelerates and fragments human contact, words risk becoming slippery surfaces, distant from the emotional truth they intend to express. Ventura is confronted with the difficulty of finding a balance between saying and not saying, between intention and message reception, in a generation that often experiences the tension between the need to connect and the fear of being misunderstood or misinterpreted. In her works, the awareness emerges that authentic expression, whether verbal, bodily or visual, is subject to barriers, misunderstandings and silences. Interpersonal relationships thus become an uncertain space, where language itself, instead of being a tool for clarity, can turn into an ambiguous weapon, a mask behind which to hide deeper emotions.
Photo credit Tanita Gennari
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.
