TARWUK's 'Ante mare et terras' Debuts at Collezione Maramotti

The artist duo TARWUK, based in New York and born in socialist Yugoslavia, present their first solo exhibition in Italy, 'Ante mare et terras', at Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia from October 17, 2021 to February 20, 2022. The show features sculptures that explore the human body as a symbol of transformation, using materials such as resin clay, steel, polyurethane foam, wire, coyote skin, coffee, human teeth, and dried flowers. The works evoke a primordial chaos, referencing Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', and depict fragmented, sutured, plural bodies in a state of potentiality, blending cyberpunk residues with tactile, sensual matter. The exhibition includes a collection of drawings with alien or melancholic faces and decorative motifs. The duo's practice is described as dystopian, anti-minimalist, and emphatic, focusing on the radical symbiosis between subjects, objects, identities, organs, and things.