Original artwork description:

Today more than ever we are surrounded by scars and indelible signs inflicted by man on the planet. We are faced with living in a tragic period on a global level both for the shadow of possible pandemics and for the devastation of senseless and terrible wars, and for the infinite cataloguing of gestures that man carries out to the detriment of the beauty and health of our planet.
This geological era, the Anthropocene, is marked by the human being, by his mania for conquest, by his supremacy over nature indifferent to the dangers that this attitude entails. Man manipulates the earth down to its bowels not only with the extraction of its raw materials but also with excavation and construction operations, influences the climate and the air we breathe, but above all pollutes the waters and seas filling them with waste of all kinds.
The era of consumerism has consumed the "health" of the earth, air and waters creating scars visible from a satellite distance.
Milena Nicosia, after having metabolized all this, has poured all her feelings into art, freeing her own voice made of matter, form, sign, vision, using art to reconstruct a personal path in the incomprehensible landscape of existence.
Thus small fragments of landscape are born inside other fragments or fossils of human and mechanical origin, imaginary micro places in which lifeless debris become hypothetical Nests (inhospitable and uninhabitable) but essential for survival and resilience.
“A fossilized and devitalized land” becomes “Nest”, a symbol of tragedy, of deep wounds but also of hope and resilience expressing the need to protect oneself, to hide, to rebuild oneself and to react by returning to life after so much death.

Materials used:

pigmenti puri, cotone, legno, metallo,

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