Une inquiétante étrangeté exhibition with Marilena Pelosi
“The uncanny will be that kind of frightening which relates to things long-known and familiar.” Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny, 1919
This summer, an “uncanny” presence makes its way to Aponia, taking on a collective dimension through the works of four artists: Chloé Poizat, Cornelia Eichhorn, Federica de Ruvo, and Marilena Pelosi… offering as many visual definitions of the same sensation. The visitor’s experience is paramount, acting as a herald for the exhibition. What connects the artists and their works is the emotional response they evoke.
At a very young age, Marilena Pelosi began to make drawings in which exuberant Catholicism and feverish Macumba, from her native Brazil, swirled to the point of delirium. The reminiscence of trance, eucharistic processions and carnivals are inextricably combined with much more intimate evocations. Established in France for several decades, she continues these same troubling drawings, made with ballpoint pens, in which doll-women are both executioners and victims. Now part of the CNAP collection, in 2019 she will join BIC (France), and in 2021 the Musée d’art moderne (Pompidou, France). In 2023, we presented works by Marilena Pelosi at ARCO Madrid.