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Intimate Mythologies brings together key alabaster works from Roberta Busato's most significant series of the last years, from 2021 to the present day. Nuances of the Volterra stone are rediscovered and enhanced, balancing a dance of formal and informal representations, transparent and opaque surfaces, concave and convex parts. Mythological stories of imagined creatures and spirits who live between worlds and time resonate perfectly with Busato’s vision, which blurs the boundaries between the humans, animals, and nature. In a delicate conversation between finished and unfinished forms, each sculpture features a combination of the anthropomorphic and surreal elements, inhabiting a liminal space. Within this threshold, all hybridizations and inner metamorphoses can occur, a fertile ground where the process of change unfolds and is completed.
Rooted in a ritual, sacred, and archetypal dimension, Busato’s creative process centers on the care of the self and the powerful practice of self-awareness, being the cornerstone of both a personal journey and a deeply felt collective necessity. Her sculptures and bas-reliefs become the language of the soul, expressing the inexpressible, resulting from a deep meditative journey to the abysses of the self.
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