“Forse mi ricordava la mia parte dolorosa quella che mi faceva camminare nei boschi la notte, che mi faceva sporcare la faccia col fango e mi faceva pensare di uccidere i miei padri”
(Stefano Benni)
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"Maybe it reminded me of the painful part that made me walk in the woods at night, that made me dirty my face with mud and made me think of killing my fathers"
(Stefano Benni)
When the external world causes a disfigurement in ourselves, pain takes over and lacerates, breaks down. In this physical and temporal space of exploding pieces of body and soul, Maybe I’m a Witch takes shape.
Born from the urgency to investigate the complex system of myself and to heal the inner chasms, this project combines the aspect of the inner journey with that of the diary.
A journey into my pain, its causes and its effects.
A journey that began with the awareness of wanting to keep track of the raw reality, the possible variables that this can have and the new things that can generate, sometimes visible, other invisible. For this journey I have resorted to the magic arts.
Struck and heartbroken by my pain, I realized that the only way to understand it, introject it and be born again was to become a witch.
Divided into chapters ( "La Smarginata"/ "The Evisceration" / "La Teodoforia"/ " Liberating the Animal"/ "The Transformation") the work takes on the appearance of a manual to become witches. Analyzing the happened you come into contact with the pain, you look at him in the face, and with the help of Nature, the magic arts and introspection you heal, acquiring magical powers
against the coming pains.
The project involves diary scans, self-portraits in phases of transformation of my body, photographic and multi-material collages, archival material and the collection of natural objects and
not, which assume the valence of symbols and amulets.
With seriousness but also a bit of irony Maybe I’m a Witch tells the story of my journey and my destiny: to welcome difficulties, love life, and become stronger to face it. Like the witches do.
And so you, perhaps, all in all, at the end of this journey: Maybe I’m a Witch. "
2022