The Iron Heart
Il Cuore Ferrato
Installation for Attraversamenti I, Milan – group show curated by Mimma Pasqua – Quinto Cortile and Bazart galleries, Milan, 3–13 April 2003
Installation with photographs, red silk satin ribbon, nails, rust. The work consists of three 50 x 70 colour photographs in progressive enlargement.
Only the Expansion of the Heart leads to Liberation.
The Heart that has been put in irons, the Pierced Heart, the Sorrowful Heart, passing through dull suffering, overcomes it and casts off the instruments of pain…
The expelled nails fall onto the Red Ribbon – symbol of the force of Life that never stops – and are reabsorbed by the Eternal Flow…
