ISABELLA PERS |PORTFOLIO

Amoris Victima is a reflection on the contradiction in which love could turn into illness and on the contrast between the idea of a civilized west and the increase in femicide, in too many cases associate with a romantic declination that the media offer to violence.

According to the statistic crimes of passion are the majority of crimes consumed in Italy. Data from recent research carried out by a sample of 266 murders: 84% of crimes are passionate; about 70% of victims are female; in 90% of cases there is a familiar author-victim; in most cases has roots in married life.

'...As long as a slow and imperceptible change appears in the state, the love, that was noble and sublimate, turns into perversion, persecution, destructive or self-destroying violence. The bandages which wind the bed (instrument of torture or secret place of interior pain?) show clearly the dramatic ambiguity of the feeling... 'Angelo Bertani, from the catalogue ‘Hicetnunc’, 2005

AMORIS VICTIMA2005 installation | old hospital bed, medical bandages, paintinstallation view at Hich et Nunc, 2005

The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix... Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet.Jeremy Rifkin

NOHAS’ ARK 2000installation | newspapers, cardboard, watering cans, paint cm 210x160x80

Trought new global digital systems every personal mnemonic path can leave its trace beyond the life of the single individual. The mathematical formulas related to these systems have been imprinted on the appendix of 30 women. I chose the monumental Staircase of Honor of the Royal Palace for its direct connection to the collective historical memory. The audio is the sound coming from the astronomical space in different celestial frequencies.In collaboration with / the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Udine University. ECHO 2007

performancePalazzo Reale di Napoli International Forum Fast Forward on New Media ArtPAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli

In these actions the people could order a performance in their private home, without knowing what was going to happen.I realized this action inside four houses. The spectators were the owners, with their relatives or some very close friends. After 7 minutes of a staring gaze with the landlord, to the sound of the whistle of my assistance, I myself became the householder. So I began to move in ‘my’ space interacting with objects, animals and guests.

TAKE AWAY YOUR SPACE2008, action

Nine teens of my village wear and pose as they prefer. Behind them there are the bulwarks of an ancient fortress city, and a small entrance leads to an old gunpowder deposit and arms deposit.The title of the series alludes to the movie Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese and especially to the line that Travis-Robert De Niro says gripping a pistol pointed at his image reflected in the mirror

YOU LOOKING AT ME? 2008, photographic series

This work is a reflection on the impossibility to get lost in unknown places, as everywhere in the world we come across the same signs of consumerism or the same digital modality to find the way.

The photos were taken by cell phone, single use cameras, and other tourist tools, but the captions of place and time do not correspond to the real images.

MERLANA-CASABLANCA2009, photographic series

In order to enter the exhibition of a group show everyone should proceed at the ribbon cutting.

OPENING2014, performance, SetUp ArFair, Bologna

The California Department of Transportation posted several ‘family immigration caution road sign’ along the freeways beginning in 1990, when the area was a funnel for undocumented immigrants headed north crossing the U.S–Mexico border, and where thousands of immigrants died. Over time the image of the road sign has taken on a life of its own. Today the running family is found on Tshirts, coffee mugs, stickers, book covers, and other gadgets.

CAUTION2008, oil on canvas, 100x120

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