CLOTS

MARTINA CIOFFI – 2022

The site-specific installation is made of Gres on pine stumps felled by the Vaia storm of 2018. The artist intervenes by insinuating himself in correspondence with the cuts, the wounds of the root, with ceramic elements (clots) with ambiguous organic shapes, inspired by the inflorescences that the tree gives life to in order to reproduce.

Their lucidity and silvery iridescence, at times alien, aims to disorient the visitor through the ambiguity between shapes and colors, between signs of life and death, between familiar and foreign. The shapes of the clot on the right are inspired by male microsporophylls, made of small yellowish spheres gathered in a cone that then disperse in the wind. From the carcass of the root on the left, whose clot is instead inspired by the female inflorescence (from which the common Pigna is born), a row of vertebrae extends like unlikely shiny barks, creating a short circuit between the plant and animal kingdoms.