The installations by Patrizia Polese create extraordinary opportunities for direct public engagement, inviting viewers to experience the work through physical interaction. The artist employs this medium to craft immersive encounters that transcend the visual, engaging the body through touch and scent. Fabric and thread naturally draw people in, awakening a desire to approach, connect, and become enveloped or protected by the artwork and its spatial environment.
The Jungle
Booknapsi
The artist believes that nothing exists as an isolated entity, but only through a dialogue between physical and mental realities. For this reason, she has emptied the book to fill it with synapses: neural maps that transfer information – from elementary gestures to the complex processes of learning and memory. The transformed object becomes an indissoluble bond with the subjectivity of whoever encounters it. She extends this research to sculptures: forms stripped of mass, reduced to pure contours, which she fills with synaptic networks and filiform weaves. Each work thus becomes a tangible testimony of the invisible bond that connects all existences.
Irrinunciabile "Unrenounceable"A tribute to femininity across its seasons
The “young” petticoats—armed with fish traps—embody the feminine contradiction between welcome and entrapment. In dialogue with them, two “elderly” 1960s
petticoats bearing harvest baskets reveal the wisdom of age: the art of listening, patient nurturing, and story-weaving. The artist envisions these elders as sister-mothers: guardians to young women exploring life with joyous assurance, fully conscious of the creative, ambivalent power inherent to the feminine universe. A legacy no woman should renounce.
Flows
