ugly woman scratching her head
Galleria Eugenia Delfini opens its third exhibition season by presenting Catherine Biocca, a visual artist who has worked and taught in Northern Europe for the last fifteen years and recently returned to Rome, her hometown.
In her work Biocca understands art as a tool to reveal the nonsense (and yet tremendously funny) of life, to do so she ranges from drawings made with colored air foam on canvas to video animations, from aluminum and silicone installations to audio works. Usually the result is a mix of different media, images and dimensions that pour the viewer into an environment to be crossed. These images belong to our cultural universe, they come from cartoons, advertising, science fiction, or simply from the internet so their aim is to make us experience reality from a different perspective.
ugly woman scratching her head is Biocca’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The title, which refers to the moment in which a person is lost in thought, was recovered by the artist from the web, and is a sentence chosen by a random user to save an image of a woman thoughtfully scratching her head.
In the exhibition Biocca presents an installation created specifically for the gallery on the issues that affect verbal and non-verbal communication. The project consists of a three-channel video installation whose subjects (a woman and a dog) are also physically present in the space as avatars. The ambiguous and unclear dialogue between the two transports the audience into a series of misunderstandings and misbeliefs, generating new situations and ways of communicating. Finally, on the wall, there are also some works on canvas and paper that refer to ancient anthropomorphic vases.
