ExhibitionJune 21, 2024
Wynnie Mynerva at Fondazione Memmo
Presagio is the first solo show of Wynnie Mynerva (Peru, 1992) in Italy. The exhibition presents, until November 3, the work done during the artist's residency at the Fondazione.
Wynnie Mynerva was immersed in Italian culture since February of this year, visiting different museums, churches, ruins and palaces in Rome. From her observations she created a series of paintings, drawings and sculptures that converge with her interests. Mynerva is a multidisciplinary artist who ponders on collective and individual traumas from the chronic illness she suffers. Her pieces distance themselves from the dichotomies between masculine and feminine, sick and healthy, by creating a dialogue about the complexity of being human.
For this exhibition the artist took the concept “holobiont” of the biologist Lynn Marguils, understood as an itinerant ecological entity that connects with everything that surrounds by symbiosis. Thus, it proposes to see the human body and organisms as a unit without prejudices around diseases. For this reason, starting with the position of a sick person, Mynerva focused in this show on the body, organs, skin and fluids.
The show proposes a journey through the physical and the spiritual by displaying body drawings and paintings on the ceilings that simulate celestial configurations. At the same time, amorphous figures are presented, half-plant, half-animal, half-human; expressing a vision where bodies and viruses are interconnected. Mynerva creates a microcosm where painting blends with forms from nature and the universe, to rethink the body, illness and spirituality, seeking connections beyond the mundane.
Wynnie Mynerva was immersed in Italian culture since February of this year, visiting different museums, churches, ruins and palaces in Rome. From her observations she created a series of paintings, drawings and sculptures that converge with her interests. Mynerva is a multidisciplinary artist who ponders on collective and individual traumas from the chronic illness she suffers. Her pieces distance themselves from the dichotomies between masculine and feminine, sick and healthy, by creating a dialogue about the complexity of being human.
For this exhibition the artist took the concept “holobiont” of the biologist Lynn Marguils, understood as an itinerant ecological entity that connects with everything that surrounds by symbiosis. Thus, it proposes to see the human body and organisms as a unit without prejudices around diseases. For this reason, starting with the position of a sick person, Mynerva focused in this show on the body, organs, skin and fluids.
The show proposes a journey through the physical and the spiritual by displaying body drawings and paintings on the ceilings that simulate celestial configurations. At the same time, amorphous figures are presented, half-plant, half-animal, half-human; expressing a vision where bodies and viruses are interconnected. Mynerva creates a microcosm where painting blends with forms from nature and the universe, to rethink the body, illness and spirituality, seeking connections beyond the mundane.
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