Petra Feriancová

The work by the artist Petra Feriancová is based on the conceptualization of emotional processes related to perception, preparation and memory, and the situations in which these are shared.

As often happens in her works, the idea of itinerary has a great value; the journey into memory and the ever new sensations it generates almost never proceeds as a linear narrative. Everything is based on the idea of ​​association, multiplicity, where however the sense of an absolute path, aimed at a definitive conclusion, is experienced as an error, a sort of trap.

On the occasion of her exhibition at Aquapetra, the artist has chosen to present two corpus of works that share her personal story.

Both projects originate in 2009, the year in which the artist chooses, for a long period, not to leave the house and to set limits, like to put herself in context of seclusion and isolation.

Seclusion is a series made up of scraps of images originally designed for a family album. The photo collages, taken with iPhones, represent small fragments of the artist's daily life during motherhood, understood in this case as a period of isolation; they are in fact small epiphanies, discoveries of the existence of a matter.

The travertine marbles placed outside the space continue the intimate discourse of the collages. This series of works was born with the intention of exploring the limit that it has imposed on herself towards the outside world.

Just like in Seclusion, these works also reveal the need to elude herself from the outside world. The phrases engraved on the plates are taken from the book “Vol. II genus "written by the artist at a precise moment in her life when she chose to change the use of communication means, in order to rediscovering a sense of freedom.