Ground floor view
Ground floor view
Ground floor view
1st floor view
1st floor view
1st floor view
Marina Caverzan
From Jun 29 to Aug 18 2023
Oracles presents the recent work of Marina Caverzan, in which different oracular systems are crossed, such as the tarot, Kabbalah, geomancy, the I Ching and chiromancy. They involve a series of mathematical patterns that support procedures to reach a certain truth, if performed properly during a trance or an investigation. The new question adds to the set of the artist's production that has constructivism as a reference and combines, in an original way, formal rigor and spiritual emanation.
Faced with the multiplicity of meanings, the artist's capacity for synthesis is remarkable. In the video Mal me quer, mal me quer (2023), she holds the stem of a plant with thorns. The minimal gesture builds triangles instead of spikes. When they are torn off, we see the line. It seems like an experiment prior to the act of painting, as if Marina were testing the alteration of form based on the separation of its elements.
In a kind of transcendental geometry, the artist configures a deviation in historically masculine constructive thinking. In Papisa (2023), there is a subversion of Kabbalah, traditionally transmitted by men - Moses, Abraham, Ezekiel. Marina highlights the female card that represents wisdom from the tarot. In the installation Pítia (2023), the instruments of advice and prediction of the Supreme Priestess of Delphi – famous city of Apollo – are contoured by female hands, some with lines on the palms, indicating palmistry and palmistry.
In Geomantic Body (2023), 16 symbols of geomancy become 16 paintings. Mounted in a circle, the symmetry and dimensions point to the tarot cards, which resemble the hexagrams of the I Ching, in their enigmatic rationality. In this way, Caverzan builds a kind of oracular syncretism, seeking convergence between ocular systems and deconstructing their symbols, but without questioning their effectiveness. The result is an unprecedented mental landscape, which seems to have always been possible and was lost in the distance of symbologies.
In her oracular syncretism, Marina Caverzan achieves expanded geometric thinking, crossing symbols to create strange and familiar images. As the saying in Latin that the artist found at the beginning of her studies on oracles says: “Nostis Omnia Perdet Omnia”. That is, to know everything is to lose everything.