Oolalala - artist

Penelope Collection

Milan 2020

The research of Raffaella Bona, architect and ceramist, is characterized by constant experimentation through the transformation of matter (stoneware and porcelain) combined with the use of metal (brass and bronze) and other elements.

The expression of form, enhanced and vivified by the material itself, as well as the interest in the tactile aspects of materials, results in the creation of "unique pieces" made exclusively by hand.

The "Penelope" collection, stems from the idea of revolutionizing the most extreme image of a burden that has always weighed on the shoulders of modern males in a harried - and culturally induced - hunt for their alpha position in the world.

Fouls chiselled in the most varied forms of mistreatment and emasculation are not true torture.

If a cursory reading induces us to label the proposed works as mere female revenge on the most classic means of pretended power held by the virile sex, closer reflection offers the viewer different or even opposite interpretations.

That prison that oppresses, made only of bars, with no doors or escape routes, or that noose that suffocates thus become a liberating cry, a compassionate gesture that suggests monsters to be demolished, a proposal of male profiles that, finally freed from roles and clichés, appear in the idea of the new millennium emptied of violence, rape and gender discrimination.

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