MALUM GRANATUM
2018
The work of the artist is focused on the investigation and development of the relationship between man and nature, through a comparison between the human body anatomy and the vegetables internal structures. Among the several media adopted by Amendola there is the “x-ray photography”, intended as a scientific artifice which inspects the matter we are made of. At the same time, it invites the spectator to pause on the essence of reality, hidden behind its external appearance. The elements subjected to this analysis are vegetal organisms which evoke a sort of humanization of nature itself. A nature which tries to come into contact with human beings and to communicate with them through a means which they can recognize. The intervention proposed in Sala Santa Rita is part of these observations. In fact, becoming part of the analysis of the human-nature relationship, it takes off the aspect of original sacredness, reflected by the evocative site of the Ex Baroque church. Close to the apse there is a big-sized pomegranate x-ray photography suspended.
Site-specific installation
curated by Lori Adragna and Maria Arcidiacono - assistant Caterina Assunti
Sala Santa Rita - Roma
Photo Pierluigi Di Pietro