MADRES, MONSTRUOS Y MAQUINAS. ACTO III: LLANTOS
Video installation and sound landscape at Instituto Italiano di Cultura, February 2024, Mexico City
Mothers, Monsters and Machines. Act III: Llantos is an environmental video installation composed of three videos that explore isolated parts of the artist's body placed in relation to natural elements and immersed in a soundscape created by Darío Acuña.
Lucrezia de Fazio thinks about the intimate act of crying as a response to change. Taking inspiration from the transformative moments of childbirth and generation, the exhibition is a visual odyssey through the intricate labyrinth of the body and captures the essence of crying as a portal: a ritual of passage, a crossing from one dimension to another. The body, portrayed as a vessel in continuous transformation, serves as a reason to question conventional notions of identity through the lens of Rosi Braidotti's posthuman feminism. The body becomes symbolic representations, intertwining the organic and the artificial. The exploration of the earth as a powerful symbol of childbirth and relationships with women becomes a commentary on the interconnectedness of life and the profound cycles of birth, death and rebirth. Llantos also contemplates the sensory experience of transition, posing the question: What does it feel like to hear a sound for the first time? De Fazio masterfully captures the moment when a newborn, emerging from a closed and cushioned environment, transitions into an open and amplified external world after birth. This exploration of new sensations serves as a metaphor for the broader human experience of embracing change and stepping into the unknown.
Matteo Binci