First Skin Edition
by Ilaria Miotto @ilariamiotto
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First Skin edition was created on the occasion of the homonym exhibition and launches the collaboration between
the Venice Academy of Fine Arts and Venice Art Factory with Contemporis ETS, in Spuma Space, Venice, 2023.
The First Skin edition collects paintings and materials from the archives of the artist Ilaria Miotto.
First Skin by artist Ilaria Miotto is about this very surface where the existent and the objective
visual memory of events - archival photography - face and mingle with subjectively formed and
informed canvases where matter deteriorates. Her research is rooted in the understanding of
memory as a psychic function of mental representation, thus she explores the boundaries of
the imaginary geographies of sensations that anticipate and underlie every structure of thought
and language. The fragmentary and decaying paintings are a visual and performative trace of the
conflictual relationship between memory and matter. The photographic and the materic images
dialogue in friction: the former are both the beginning and the end of the artist’s memory of her
own story from which she subtracts memories thus reconstructed in informal frames.
If believing is seeing what happens to undocumented and undocumentable facts?
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