Beatrice donda
Latte
Sul come essere madre da chi non lo è mai stato
Latte
Il latte come fluido umano della crescita, l'energia vitale primordiale, desiderio innato e puro, primo carburante del nostro motore, introduzione liquida a un rituale - la nutrizione - che plasmerà le azioni e le abitudini future, i processi di acquisizione e sedimentazione, il nostro intero modo di vivere nel mondo.
Cosa vuol dire nutrire con il proprio corpo un altro essere umano?
Cosa vuol dire essere nutriti da un altro essere umano?
385.000 donne danno la luce ad un nuovo essere umano ogni giorno
L'opera "latte" riflette sul significato di essere madre senza esserlo mai stato.
Osservato dal punto di vista di un essere umano che non ha mai donato la vita.
Ciò su cui l'opera vuole soffermarsi è la tensione tra il voler diventare madre e il voler essere ancora allattati, l'essere accompagnati nel mondo per costruire il proprio senso di identità. Un desiderio di recuperare quella sensazione di protezione data dall'attaccamento al seno materno.
Perché il latte diventa oscenità? L'allattamento atto impuro da nascondere?
E perché la donna si sente sbagliata se impura?
L'uomo ha reso la donna sporca e allo stesso tempo ha preteso che fosse pura
La Madonna della Pinna
“Madonna della Pinna”, conosciuta anche come Madonna del latte nel Cilento, una zona rigogliosa della Campania si festeggia il giorno dell’Ascensione.
Secondo le accezioni cristiane, ricorda l’ascensione di Gesù al cielo dopo la risurrezione, quindi il momento del distacco o svezzamento dalla terra e il conseguente passaggio al regno dei cieli. Da qui nasce la tradizione della distribuzione del latte, un vero e proprio rito propiziatorio per porre il gregge sotto la protezione celeste. Il latte era destinato prima di tutto alle persone meno fortunate per permettere loro di allattare i propri figli e poi a tutti gli altri per festeggiare la Madonna.
La performance
La performance è caratterizzata da una sedia, un tavolo, una brocca di latte e 31 tazzine.
La performance prende avvio con la mia azione di colmare le tazzine riposte sul tavolo con il latte contenuto nella caraffa. Ognuno di questi piccoli contenitori rappresenta un diverso avvenimento nella mia vita. Una volta terminato questo processo, mi avvicino al pubblico, prendo mia madre per mano e la faccio accomodare sulla sedia. Inizia quindi un percorso rituale che mi porta dal tavolo alla sedia, consegnando a mia madre una ad una le tazzine contenenti il latte. Questo gesto simbolizza la restituzione di quanto mi è stato donato nel corso dei miei 31 anni. Tale atto si svolge in un contesto di tensione, poiché riflette la mia ambivalenza nel restituire il latte, simboleggiando la paura del distacco tra madre e figlia. Lei accoglierà le tazzine tra le sue mani e ne berrà il contenuto. Ogni qualvolta finirà di bere appoggerò la tazza a terra creando così un cordone composto dalle tazze disposte a terra. Questo gesto non solo riempirà lo spazio tra me e lei, ma simboleggerà anche la creazione di un nuovo legame, non più centrato sulla "nutrizione" di un individuo, ma piuttosto su una nuova connessione.
Proiettato sul muro alle nostre spalle la Madonna della Pinna
Project: Pattern in the pigment for Dezen Dezen
Category: Edible installation
Year: 2022
Location: Trieste, Italy
Material: dough, edible color, potato
“Pattern in the pigment” tells the passion of two young people who decide to take over an ancient craft. The founder's grandmother had been producing women's scarves since 1938, which from Zagreb were distributed throughout Eastern Europe. Due to the conflict that struck the former Yugoslavia, the business lost much of the market leaving hundreds of magnificent wooden screen printing unused, so the they decided to reuse them, giving them new life, reinventing the tradition of scarves and transforming it into a contemporary product. The visitor finds himself interacting with the work by reproducing the process of making the scarves but using edible dyes and edible materials such as shortcrust pastry and potatoes. Materials that want to remember the modest origin of this fascinating technique.Once their own pattern has been created, visitors are invited to taste their own small works of craftsmanship to absorb the history of this ancient company, it’s tradition and the love of this incredible family.
Project: bread on the canal
Category: performance
Year: 2022
Location: London, Uk
Material: water, flour, salt, yeast
Description: disruption of the kitchen space
Project: yolk
Category: photography
Year: 2021
Location: London, Uk
Material: egg yolk, sugar
Description: can dripping yolk make you drip
FUTURE PROJECTS
madre posidonia
The ancient Greek myth tells that Zeus, king of the gods, in order to establish who had the right to rule Attica and to give the name to its capital, launched a fight between Poseidon and Athena. Whoever gave the inhabitants the best gift would have won. Poseidon struck the rock with his trident and made a horse jump out of it, a wonderful animal, unbeatable in running, powerful in battle. Athena, on the other hand, beat the ground with her javelin and made a small plant with silver leaves sprout which soon produced small dark berries: the olive tree, a noble and precious plant. Women voted for Athena and men for Poseidon but, being the women in majority, Athena prevailed. Poseidon was furious, flooded the whole of Attica.
Posidonia oceanica forms extensive seagrass meadows around the Balearic Islands, known as underwater forests, with high biodiversity of species and their role in the ecosystem is of great importance.
Seagrass meadows provide shelter for many species; produce oxygen on a daily basis, removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and creating tons of biomass per year. Likewise, they act as barrier reef structure, which, although they are scarce today in the Mediterranean, have a high importance and longevity.
Posidonia blooms in Autumn and produces floating fruits in spring, commonly known as sea olives.
GENDinER
The categories of men and women are now obsolete and no longer represent today's social complexity.Human nature, however, leads us to want to classify each one in one of the two genders even unconsciously, this creates discomfort for those who feel they belong to another gender or do not want to identify themselves in any category. From this comes the concept of "feeding one's curiosity from the body of others", therefore having to necessarily understand what is under the jeans or under the t-shirt in order to be able to give a label to the subject in front of us without any permission or need to do so but only out of mere curiosity. The installation will therefore lead people during the exposition to carry out this act in a conscious way, thus literally eating from the body of others. To feed on their reproductive organs which will be represented in edible materials.
AMULETI
“Amuleti” was born from the idea of combining the world of food with the rich spiritual world of four incredible sports: skate, surf, ski and snowboard.Two worlds that usually never come close. Two worlds that for some reason have always remained distant and no one has ever had an interest in associating.From this union comes the idea of interviewing those who live these sports on a daily basis and tell their story. Giving shape to their thoughts through amulets that will represent each of them. Amulets that the artist will shape in order to convey to those who will taste them the most intimate stories of these athletes, all selected because they are among the most eccentric and influential including the Olympian Leonardo Donaggio (Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics) and the world champion of SuperUnknown Giorgia Bertoncini (SuperUnknown 2019).More than 300 edible amulets will cover an altar, ready to be eaten by the people present in order to absorb the stories they bring with them.
A trilogy born in the months lived in Shanghai. The first book "Not a cookbook" tells the stories of the people closest to the artist and the most important places she has visited. Each story is written as a recipe without actually being a recipe. "A cookbook" instead is in effect a cookbook, a large collection of recipes written over the years in various trips and found in family books, while "Not" is a story that will be published in a single copy, a scandalous, erotic and sarcastic book.
NOT A COOK BOOK
A COOK BOOK
NOT
BOCCA
The artist is working in collaboration with a silversmith to create a collection of food shaped cutlery in silver
Personal and collective exhibitions:
Pearls for Constantin Thun - Youth Club, London, 20 May 2018
Bread and butter - Canalside Studio, London, 8 November 2021
Into the woods - Blu di Prussia, Trieste, 27 November 2021
Pattern in the pigment - Dezen Dezen Studio, Trieste, 12 December 2021
Shibari - Canalside Studio, London, 27 April 2022
Randagi - De Art , Trieste,10 May 2022
Comptium - Art Space, Trieste, 20 July 2022
Not a Cookbook - MLZ Art Del Gallery, Trieste, 22 June 2023