Mythology-Inspired
Posted on July 16 2024
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MYTHOLOGY-INSPIRED │ 5 - 31 July, 2024
Event curated by LoosenArt
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Text by Silvia Colombo
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Our collective imagination is steeped in stories from various cultures and ancient times. Courageous stories that have overcome the obstacles of time and geographical boundaries, reaching contemporary times—an era where everything is re-stitched and adapted, yet remains unchanged. The language and context may change, but certain values and ideas remain universal and universally recognized.
The collective exhibition Mythology Inspired, open at Spazio Millepiani from July 5 to 31, 2024, aims to acknowledge a specific role for mythology, understood as a source of literary, imaginative, and artistic inspiration. The selected artists exhibit photographic, digital, and video works that, in some way, draw inspiration from the past—from our roots—to speak to the present without filters. Or, perhaps, precisely through the filter of art.
The collective exhibition Mythology Inspired, open at Spazio Millepiani from July 5 to 31, 2024, aims to acknowledge a specific role for mythology, understood as a source of literary, imaginative, and artistic inspiration. The selected artists exhibit photographic, digital, and video works that, in some way, draw inspiration from the past—from our roots—to speak to the present without filters. Or, perhaps, precisely through the filter of art.
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Anna Gloria Flores, The Guardian of the Egg, 2021
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Alina Grebeshkova, The River Daughter of Heaven and Earth, nd
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Overall, the works offer a broad interpretation of the word "mythology," both geographically and terminologically. The stories told, captured, and photographed come from the East as well as the West. Likewise, true mythology—populated by demons and gods—intertwines with the collective literary and cinematic imagination, folklore, and fairy tales of princesses and dragons, but also with legends that see forests populated by spirits and creatures on the border between sky and earth. Places where primordial elements—water, earth, fire, and air—take on ecological values but, above all, metaphorical and symbolic ones. And it is precisely here that, for example, cowboy culture gives way to deeper reflections on white masculinity in Western society; and saints and pagan figures clash in their roles as heroes or protectors of cities.
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This exhibition is therefore interesting not only as a visual, artistic, and aesthetic resource but also as a source of knowledge of distant cultures we have never approached. Everything seems so remote yet, at the same time, so close, as we realize the red thread that somehow brings distances closer and unites cultures.
As mentioned earlier, the contrast between past and present is reflected in the encounter/clash between the tradition of universal tales and the contemporary represented by new technologies and artificial intelligence.
As mentioned earlier, the contrast between past and present is reflected in the encounter/clash between the tradition of universal tales and the contemporary represented by new technologies and artificial intelligence.
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Hanna Hnatsiuk, Dreams, 2022
Jennifer Folsom, Ritual, 2017
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Eirini Lachana, Yugen, 2019
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Hyungee Kang, Joy!; Let it Go, 2023/2024
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Alireza Azizi, Eshmeh (اَئِشمَه), 2020
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Irina Borodina, Night, 2024
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MYTHOLOGY-INSPIRED
5 - 31 July, 2024
Millepiani - Via N. Odero,13, Rome - IT
linfo@millepiani.eu
+39 06.888.17.620
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