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WONDERLAND
The beam of a floodlight is aimed at the human being, protagonist of a comedy, half way between parody and pathos. Wonderland becomes a magic trip through the conscious mind, where one’s reflection in a mirror and the floodlight that illuminates oneself become metaphors for the same thing. The soul is seized by the body and confined in a box comparable to the theatre: wrapped in obscurity, the den of the rabbit becomes the bridge that connects real and imaginary, metaphor for a longed for yet unreachable transition. Suspended inside a void that, as a result of ironic tautology, makes every logical conclusion bereft of any content, Sara Spizzichino draws a fairy self-portrait in which each onlooker is able, as in a mirror, to be reflected.

BLOOD
The theme is of body and deformity, and also a body that takes on the function of a technological device, and the idea that the capability of a machine can totally replace our functions: all this arouses attraction and repulsion at the same time, instigating a sort of dizziness and instability that end by upsetting our imagination. Then suddenly that which perturbs us returns to instigate anguish because of a hypothetical change in our identity, through the instigating event. The metamorphosis, from where we would not be able to return back. Everything that we desire resides in what we don't have: it is in the missed realisation of our dreams that these continue to lodge in our souls in expectation, in the hope that everything will be fulfilled before death. In Nobody the violence of the soft and pulpy material of the animal flesh signals the inevitable association with the fact that we are made of flesh, which has little to do with the substance of Shakespearian dreams. The flesh is the place where intellect doesn't exist, and is indeed an emblem of our mortality, in a search that becomes aesthetic and confines it to the territory of the icon: even if it does not have a real relationship with the human body, it establishes with it a sacred link and an indecipherable bond.

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Sara Spizzichino 2007
Rome, Italy

Blood

2007
digital print
cm.30x30

Blood

2007
digital print
cm.30x30

Blood

2007
digital print
cm.30x30

Blood

2007
digital print
cm.30x30

Blood

2007
digital print
cm.30x30

Wonderland

2007
lambda print
cm.15x15

Wonderland

2007
lambda print on gatorfoam
cm.50x50

Wonderland

2007
lambda print on gatorfoam
cm.50x50

Wonderland

2007
lambda print
cm.15x15

Wonderland [Not allowed]

2007
Lambda print on gatorfoam
100X100