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For Cannon Fodder, Giuditta Branconi’s first solo exhibition in an institutional space, the young artist has created a series of new paintings and a large installation composed of painted canvases, which the public will be able to physically enter.
The title of the exhibition (‘cannon fodder’) refers to expendable bodies, to material destined to be consumed by a larger system. In the shift from the military sphere to the visual and symbolic dimension, Branconi’s images are transformed into ammunition for denouncing a violent and oppressive present: compressed, charged, ready to detonate on the surface of the canvas, in an explosion that is not only formal but also emotional and political – an excess that rejects composure.
Reggio Emilia RE, Italia
