Opening 22/01 - 23/01 - 08/03, 2025
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Elena Damiani
Weather Bodies
Weather Bodies expands upon Damiani’s ongoing exploration of materiality and temporality, positioning weather as a condition of coexistence between bodies and environments. The exhibition represents a continuation of the artist’s interest in geological and ecological processes, employing sculptural forms to propose a shared and evolving understanding of a world in flux and of the interdependence of all things. By collapsing the distinctions between the human and the geological, the temporal and the timeless, Damiani proposes a reconsideration of the dynamic processes that shape our world and ourselves.
The exhibition reflects on the multiple dimensions of the concepts of weather and weathering, examining their roles as transformative forces that surpass human perception while deeply shaping material and ecological processes. Weather is understood as both fleeting and expansive—a storm, a season, and an agent of geological and ecological change. To weather is to endure and transform, an ongoing interplay of forces that destabilizes fixed notions of matter and form.
This framework informs the works on view, in which Damiani draws attention to the interconnectivity between organic and inorganic realms. The sculptures, made from marble, copper, and bronze, resemble plant-like shapes, cellular forms, and traces of vitality embedded in mineral substrates. These compositions explore the porous boundaries between life and non-life, engaging with themes of decay, resilience, and mutual transformation. The materials, shaped over millennia by planetary processes, actively participate in this dialogue, embodying histories of change, adaptation, and reconfiguration.
The exhibition is the third part of a project that began in 2020 and whose first part titled Ensayos de lo Solido was presented at the MAC Museum of Contemporary Art Lima in June 2022, and a second part titled Mineral Ways at Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm in November 2022.
Weather Bodies expands upon Damiani’s ongoing exploration of materiality and temporality, positioning weather as a condition of coexistence between bodies and environments. The exhibition represents a continuation of the artist’s interest in geological and ecological processes, employing sculptural forms to propose a shared and evolving understanding of a world in flux and of the interdependence of all things. By collapsing the distinctions between the human and the geological, the temporal and the timeless, Damiani proposes a reconsideration of the dynamic processes that shape our world and ourselves.
The exhibition reflects on the multiple dimensions of the concepts of weather and weathering, examining their roles as transformative forces that surpass human perception while deeply shaping material and ecological processes. Weather is understood as both fleeting and expansive—a storm, a season, and an agent of geological and ecological change. To weather is to endure and transform, an ongoing interplay of forces that destabilizes fixed notions of matter and form.
This framework informs the works on view, in which Damiani draws attention to the interconnectivity between organic and inorganic realms. The sculptures, made from marble, copper, and bronze, resemble plant-like shapes, cellular forms, and traces of vitality embedded in mineral substrates. These compositions explore the porous boundaries between life and non-life, engaging with themes of decay, resilience, and mutual transformation. The materials, shaped over millennia by planetary processes, actively participate in this dialogue, embodying histories of change, adaptation, and reconfiguration.
The exhibition is the third part of a project that began in 2020 and whose first part titled Ensayos de lo Solido was presented at the MAC Museum of Contemporary Art Lima in June 2022, and a second part titled Mineral Ways at Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm in November 2022.
- Black Crested Saguaro, 2024Hand carved black Santa Ana marble, Tuscan Arenaria base
148×58×58 cm - Black Crested Saguaro, 2024Hand carved black Santa Ana marble, Tuscan Arenaria base
148×58×58 cm - Black Crested Saguaro, 2024Hand carved black Santa Ana marble, Tuscan Arenaria base
148×58×58 cm - Pendula en aro, 2024Copper, Breccia Marina marble base
64,5×107×15 cm - Pendula en aro, 2024Copper, Breccia Marina marble base
64,5×107×15 cm - Ellisella, 2024Copper plated iron base and iron rods
44×44×80 cm - Ellisella, 2024Copper plated iron base and iron rods
44×44×80 cm - Ellisella, 2024Copper plated iron base and iron rods
44×44×80 cm - Rama, 2024Copper branch, copper leaves
108×82×80 cm - Rama, 2024Copper branch, copper leaves
108×82×80 cm - Rama, 2024Copper branch, copper leaves
108×82×80 cm - Poem, 2024Travertine cylinders with copper, steel shelves
260×335×6 cm - Poem, 2024Travertine cylinders with copper, steel shelves
260×335×6 cm - Poem, 2024Travertine cylinders with copper, steel shelves
260×335×6 cm - Mineral Cell III, 2024Cast bronze frame, stone slabs (marble, travertine, quartzite, granite), brass fittings, cast bronze base
192×127×59,5 cm - Mineral Cell III, 2024Cast bronze frame, stone slabs (marble, travertine, quartzite, granite), brass fittings, cast bronze base
192×127×59,5 cm - Mineral Cell III, 2024Cast bronze frame, stone slabs (marble, travertine, quartzite, granite), brass fittings, cast bronze base
192×127×59,5 cm