Federica Zianni

The practice of art as much as religions and myths formation, is common to all human beings and persistent in every culture since the dawn of humanity. In her artworks Federica Zianni tries to explore how art, conceived as a practice, can become a meeting point, to oppose fears of contemporary issues such as identity, cultural heritage and migration, directly and demonstratively, through installations and performances. She works mainly through sculpture making recourse to artificial materials such as resins, inner tubes and tourniquets, juxtaposing classical materials such as brass and bronze with the lost wax bronze casting, her preferred technique. The artist also deals with the theme of self-introspection, creating dynamic and shiny surfaces that do not relate to a clear portrait of those who are being mirrored. Her latest series is connected to the creation of apparently organic, swollen shapes, reflecting on the cultural nature of human beings and its facets, in an operation that recalls classical myths and reinterprets archetypical images of birth, death, creation and destruction.