La Nave dei Veleni ( The ship of Poisons )

About the artwork

%u201CThe Ship of Poisons%u201D exists in a space suspended between memory and vision. Inspired by the case of ships carrying nuclear waste sunk in the Mediterranean, the work does not represent reality directly, but transforms it into an interior geography where the etched mark, through etching and aquatint, becomes corroded matter, wound, and trace of resurfacing time. The ship turns into a mental architecture, both wreck and navigable space: an unstable presence built through perspectival tensions and a fragile balance of light and shadow. In this environment, devoid of human figures yet marked by their absence, an uneasy and suspended dimension emerges, where what has been hidden returns as vision. The viewer is invited to remain within this ambiguous structure, attracted and repelled at once, as before an enigma. Reality dissolves, and through the dense texture of marks one glimpses what persists beneath the surface.