Diario di un ventre scavato

2017, flour, megaphone
Par tibi, Roma, nihil. Stadio Palatino, Fori Imperiali, Rome
Photo from Performance
Fine art print, 140 x 120 cm
Ph. Ela Bialkowska | Okno studio
The site is conceived as an open-air anatomy lesson. From above, viewers encounter the apparition of a colossal skeletal figure, its outline emerging from the ruins, while intestines drawn in flour climb upward to occupy the head—as if instinct were overtaking thought. At first, the image reads like an anatomical diagram, almost instructional in tone; gradually, it turns into a metaphor for power, suggesting how a society regulates, controls and administers bodies and life. The work moves between registers and scales: a field of debris becomes a meditation on environmental breakdown, and a taxonomy of forms opens onto questions of gender, empathy and relation. Moving through this newly imagined archaeology, the performance stages the moment control slips and the boundary between inside and outside gives way—an image of an irreversibly altered environment, where inner states are forced to follow the fractures of the external world. After the performance, the drawing will be gradually erased by the wind over the following days, and the message it brought into view will disappear with it.








