Filippo Berta's Sacred-Profane Boundary Explored at Mestre Gallery

Filippo Berta (born Treviglio, 1977) investigates the fragile boundary between sacred and profane in his exhibition at Galleria Massimodeluca in Mestre. The show opens with a video depicting the industrial assembly line of a crucifix, stripping it of divine connotation through serial production. Central to the project is a video of a collective action first staged at the 6th Thessaloniki Biennale and reprised in Mestre: barefoot participants, on tiptoe, strain to nail their own crucifixes to the wall. This performance symbolizes humanity's drive to surpass limits through sacrifice, resulting in an irregular demarcation line. Berta captures the scene in a single photograph, then fragments it into life-size portraits that monumentally fill one gallery room. The exhibition inaugurated the second edition of Venice Galleries View, a successful itinerary involving nine female-led galleries.