Raffaela Naldi Rossano's 'You Complete Me' at Museo Apparente, Naples

In a Neapolitan garden adorned with lemon trees and Mediterranean plants, a wooden architectural structure typical of Nordic cabins hosts an exhibition curated by Corrado Follinea of Galleria A Cappella. The latest invitation went to Raffaela Naldi Rossano, a young Neapolitan artist who continues her exploration of 'the other.' Her exhibition 'You Complete Me' presents found objects from hotel rooms, coated in blue or pink resin, rejecting binary conventions. The colors reference childhood, including the front of the artist's childhood bed. The objects, though unfamiliar, attract personal memories and vice versa, creating a reciprocity that engages human nature and psyche. A track of the artist's mother's voice, based on Gestalt therapy, accompanies the installation, acting as a hypnotic awakening of the self. The resin-encased items—eyeglasses, towels, clothes, phone chargers—testify to the remnants and waste of society, both material and psychological. The artist recreates the sense of a chance encounter in a suspended atmosphere between a time-stopped washing machine interior and a toy warehouse. The transparency of the resin creates a mirroring effect that imprisons objects while suspending them, invoking personal and collective unconscious. The exhibition took place in 2018 at Museo Apparente in Naples.