The Gloves

The Gloves, 2024. Textile ex-voto with a silver gelatin print.

25 × 20 cm.

The Gloves are part of “Piccole Passioni” from 2024. The installation depicts a collection made from a corpus of pieces, archives, and votive objects along the Baroque route: Southern Italy, Spain, and Central Europe.

Baroque means "irregular pearl," from the Portuguese Barocco. If it is irregular, it embodies caprice, fantasy, and freedom of invention. In an era ofdoubts and fears, the convulsive and exalted art of the Baroque emerged. If it still moves us today, isn't it because, in the face of disaster and terror, wefeel far from safe?

"Piccole Passioni" explores a contemporary relationship to belief and superstition, to collective and individual fears, and to the performance of self in an era of spectacle. This work examines the intensity of signs, the passages between visible and invisible, between sacred and profane. It is rooted in an interest in the aesthetics of the Italian Baroque and its key motifs: the mask, the veil, concealment, identity in perpetual transformation. Beneath the mask, behind the veil, a paradoxica truth emerges: we are never more ourselves than in metamorphosis.