Upcoming exhibition at #CollezioneMaramotti
Part of the twentieth Fotografia Europea festival
Viviane Sassen | This Body Made of Stardust
27 April - 27 July 2025
Comprising more than fifty photographs and a video, all dating from 2005 to 2025 — with several new works made specifically for the occasion — "This Body Made of Stardust" is the most extensive presentation of Sassen’s work in Italy to date and is curated by the artist herself.
The show revolves around the concept and iconography of the memento mori: (abstractions of) human bodies, landscapes, dust, earth and organic matter become symbols and recurring reminders of death—an inevitable passage in the transformation of all that lives. Through a non-narrative structure built from visual fragments and formal links between images that seem very different, Sassen invites us into a many-sided, dreamlike, seductive universe distilled drop by drop from everyday life and instilled with Surrealism, flowing out of the artist’s interaction (her fantasies, obsessions, memories and fears) with the outside world.
Forming a dialogue with sculptures from Collezione Maramotti to which Sassen felt an immediate affinity, the photographs in the show are drawn from different series of works in her vast archive, which the artist has been reworking into different configurations for years now, in a sort of long-term investigative project.
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