Flora Radix (2024). Project presented at Camilla Grimaldi Gallery, curated by Micol Veller.
The works that are part of Flora Radix tell us about popular female wisdom, the secret language of remedies handed down by tradition, from grandmothers, mothers, daughters, but they also remind us of the distrust and discrimination linked to this form of knowledge, and the many persecutions suffered by those wise women, called witches, between the 15th and 18th centuries. Thanks to plants, for centuries women have taken care of their beauty, protected their bodies from disease, but also medicated their children or avoided unwanted pregnancies. The leaves and flowers of herbs such as Ruda, Colocasia, Parsley are the protagonists of these works in which the beauty of natural forms intertwines and dialogues with soft and harmonious colors, in evident contrast with the violence of the sentences of those who suffered for being wise, independent, capable of healing themselves and not dying.