2024
ECHOES OF BROKEN SOULS
Un viaggio immersivo che invita a riettere sulle fratture che attraversano le nostre vite, personali e collettive, esplorando le sde e le trasformazioni del nostro tempo.
Anastasia Silvestri’s work lies in a complex and fascinating territory, where the figurative meets a visual narrative imbued with disquiet and poetry.
In her works the artist weaves an imagery thet draws on the language of comincs, trasforming it into a personal stylistic signature capable of exploring the universal themes of pain, resilience and hope.
The work presented in the exhibition portrays a woman marked by suffering, a face that becomes a testimony to existential deprivation: joy has been taken away from her and her rejection of the word is manifested in an emblematic gesture, the regurgitation of withered flowers.
Here, the symbolic choice of the flower - traditionally associated with beauty and rebirth - is reversed to represent a decay that does not, however, crystallise into a definitive message.
At the centre of the composition, a single, still-living flower emerges as a sing of the hope, a fragile yearning for the possibility of resisting and flourishing again despite everything.
Anastasia Silvestri constructs her characters with caricatured features, which amplify the emotions of her subjects to the point of making them palpable.
These faces and bodies seem to come from a surreal world, where the shadows of dark imagery are intertwined with a deep sense of vulnerability.
The influence of comics is mot limited to the stylisation of the features: it is also reflected in the ability to costruct a powerful symbolic narrative, whitch manages to communicate a complexity of meanings through an apparent formal minimalism. 'l see my works as an extension of my mind and imagination, 'says the artist.
And indeed, observing her works is like accessing an inner universe made up of dreamlike suggestions and emotional tensions. Anastasia Silvestri's art offers no answers, but invites the viewer to question himself, to recognise fragments of himself in his figures, exploring that subtle border between transience and rebirth, between darkness and light.
by Francesca Brunello