Da buio a buio (From Dark to Dark)
Description:
Moira Ricci (Orbetello, 1977; lives and works in Rimini and Orbetello), in Da buio a buio (From Dark to Dark), examines folklore and agricultural memories using the same late 19th century classification methods that have been applied throughout most of the museum, but challenging the principles of scientific inquiry.
The artist, in fact, plays with photography, creating false documents and building fantastical archives that connect to the creation of an imaginary museum developed not around urban legends, but rural ones, originating in Tuscany Maremma, where she was born and where she works.
Weaving between historical narrative and suggestive folklore, the Uomo sasso (Stone Man), Lupo mannaro (Werewolf), Bambina cinghiale (Boar Girl), and Gemellini (Little Twins) are, therefore, figures which in the oral tradition take on true size and substance, supported by various kinds of documents.
Like an act of rebellion against vertical knowledge, the artist restores dignity to the oral storytelling tradition of popular culture, identifying the Italian countryside as the mythopoeic setting of peasant society and emphasizing its relevance especially in the wake of our prevalently urbanized and industrialized modern culture.
