Data / Ora
Date(s) - 02/10/2024
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Luogo
Corals Gallery
Categorie
“Life is born again”
An exhibition of Martyna Pietrasik
Curated by Greta Zuccali
Opening 2 October 2024
h.18:30-21:00
Opening on Wednesday, October 2nd, at the Corals exhibition space, is the show titled “Life is born again”, featuring works by artist Martyna Pietrasik, curated by Greta Zuccali.
The Polish-born artist, after collaborating with the gallery last December with the exhibition “Annotations. Words, Emotions”, returns to Milan with a solo show that narrates an intense journey of rebirth. Through her works, Martyna explores the theme of self-acceptance and the acceptance of one’s own female body, while addressing the challenges posed by eating disorders. A painful and intimate journey, transformed into a powerful artistic expression.
In today’s world, driven by image and the overwhelming and relentless comparison with unrealistic beauty standards, more and more people develop a distorted relationship with food and their body image. Eating disorders, increasingly widespread, affect individuals across all demographic groups, making them a silent affliction of our society.
For Martyna, art becomes the language through which she expresses emotions too difficult to put into words. Starting with the title “Life is born again” (Rebirth), Martyna celebrates her moment of renewal, the moment when the artist, and first the woman, reconciles with her own body. With each soft and delicate brushstroke, Martyna sheds her fears and transforms her suffering into art, weaving a path of healing and self-acceptance. Painting thus becomes a powerful therapeutic tool, a source of hope, and a shining example for those battling eating disorders.
Pietrasik’s works, vibrant with vital energy and delicacy, confront us with organic forms that shift and move across the canvas, bringing the viewer closer to a new life and inviting them to reconsider their own perception of the body, freeing themselves from the chains of an often unreachable and idealized standard of beauty.
The artworks will be accompanied by poetic texts written by poet Anna Riti, exploring themes of relationships with others and with oneself.
To explore the theme of eating disorders, Dr. Martina Benincasa and Dr. Francesca Cresto from ABA Milan, an association founded by Fabiola De Clercq for the Study and Research of Anorexia, Bulimia, Obesity, and Eating Disorders, will be present during the opening night.
Martyna Pietrasik
Born in Krakow in 1999, Martyna Pietrasik is a painter and photographer who embarks on an intense journey to find her own artistic voice, rooted in a strong academic foundation. Her art, deeply personal and intimate, explores shifting emotions and the delicate connection between humans and nature. Profoundly influenced by her experience with anorexia, the artist delves into the theme of the body and its biological structure, expressing it through organic forms and vibrant colors that evoke both nature and anatomy. Trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and Brera, her work is a continuous dialogue between tradition and experimentation.
Anna Riti
Anna Riti, a poet and interpreter from Milan, began her literary journey in 2018, writing in both Italian and English. The recurring themes in her work stem from the challenges of managing her psychiatric condition, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and how it shapes her relationships with others and herself. Her writing often touches on experiences of dissociation, depression, loneliness, and the feeling of being misunderstood by a world that can seem hostile. However, her poetry also explores the therapeutic journey toward a more peaceful coexistence with her condition.
Anna uses poetry as a tool to translate the deep-rooted causes and nuances of her shifting emotional states into a language that is understandable to readers—and to herself, through the self-analysis that writing facilitates. In 2024, Anna held a solo exhibition (“Birthday Exhibition,” February 2024) and participated in various shows and live readings of her poetry.
Associazione ABA
Association founded in 1991 by Fabiola De Clercq as a response to the difficulties she experienced on her own skin for over twenty years. ABA proposes a multidisciplinary and relationship-focused approach to treatment. The assumption from which the association starts is that eating disorders are the expression of a deep discomfort that cannot but be listened to and understood. This is why ABA offers a protected space in which to bring out one is suffering and treat it, proposing individual, group and parenting support paths. It carries out prevention and awareness-raising activities dedicated to students, teachers and parents in schools on Lombardy soil.
The association is based in Rome and Milan.
Corals Gallery
Via Evangelista Torricelli 21
20136 – Milano
info@coralss.it
https://www.instagram.com/coralsartgallery/
Opening: October 2, 2024
Time: 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Public Opening: October 3 – November 30, 2024
Monday – Friday: 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Outside regular hours by appointment
Closed on Sundays
Free Admission
Exhibition project
Greta Zuccali |g.zuccali@hub-art.org
www.hub-art.org
@hubartexhibition
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