Rossana Borzelli

Blinding light and deep darkness, subversiveness and pain, vitality and sweetness, embrace, slap but also and above all love. We speak of a woman, an artist, but also of all the others, past, present, and those to come. For Rossana, the silhouettes represent a profound research into the powerful biographical experience of female painters, sculptors, photographers, combatant writers, who have questioned absolute and secularised categories starting from themselves, from their own experience. Her works highlight differences and contrasts, such as strength, provocation and violence as opposed to femininity, acceptance and gentleness. Contrasts that as she herself says: "live in me and therefore in my work". Rossana starts with metal, a cold and hard material, and then traces the lines of these bodies trying to give them an image through vivid and pulsating colours. The choice of this material seems to be no accident, as if to represent the historical and cultural fabric they had to deal with.