/ Italy
Seir, 2023
resin on aluminum
cm 120 × 120
A surface made specifically to accommodate a void, an absence, an element that generates potential difference, the possibility of falling and rising. A synthetic and radical geometrism that makes no secret of mystical accents, as it was for those who are generally quickly rubricated as fathers of functionalism, such as Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevic or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Jessica Salvia (1986) was born in Potenza. She graduated from the Academy of fine arts in Rome and has a master’s degree in Film theories and techniques. She has worked as a copywriter and a writer, elements that also influence her artistic work. She defines Seir as a kind of “first work”: it is an aluminium panel coated with resin and pigments with applications, a surface made specifically to accommodate a void, an absence, an element that generates potential difference, possibility of falling and rising. Seir is the name of the mountain around which, according to the sacred Christian and Hebrew scriptures, the people of Israel fleeing Egypt would circle in search of the “promised land”. A topos that Salvia associates with Monteserico, in its imaginative and symbolic matrix that makes the manor house the materialization of a longed-for goal and the gulf between desire and realization. A synthetic and radical geometrism that makes no secret of mystical accents, as it was for those who are generally quickly rubricated as fathers of functionalism, such as Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevic or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.