PRESENTAZIONE IUNO COMMISSION #8 ALA D’AMICO
November 8, 2023
Iuno presents 23.09.23the silkscreen print realised by Ala d'Amico for IUNO Commission, a programme of artists' commissions conceived to develop, in occasion of every equinox and solstice, a new guise to the chthonic and celestial figure of Juno.
For the occasion, IUNO's space will host a selection of works from the Erbacce, di cui 23.09.23 is a part of, dedicated to wild plants growing along the city cement, and conceived as an anthology - literally: a collection of flowers – testifying to the constant and irreducible vitality of Nature.
Ala d’Amico (Rome, 1985) is a visual artist and founder since 2021 of ORME, an experimental screen printing studio. Fearing that the constant proliferation of new images would only nullify them, Ala d'Amico became interested in the life of existing images, studying their possibilities for transformation both on a formal and conceptual level. The question the artist asks herself is what is, or what could be, the life of an image. The silkscreen technique thus becomes the appropriate medium for working on the dualism between a taken image and an appropriated one, between the principle of an unicum and that of a single image within a series, between the concept of ownership and that of use. Ala d'Amico's work thus finds itself investigating the relationship between matter and image. Both analog and digital methods of reproduction are used in her works. The images also often come from different sources, such as history books, stills from TV newscasts, scientific texts, appropriating them in dialogue with personal images within new compositions to emphasize alternative narratives and possibly uncover latent meanings. Her exhibitions include Fragments, La