The next work by Luisa Raffaelli which will be presented in the gallery on May 18th focuses on an extremely topical theme: the Armed Man, the extreme result of power relations – between man and technology, between different social groups, between communities and states, between human community and power and finally between human community and planet – which (un)regulate problems on a planetary scale. Luisa Raffaelli, who has put narrative at the center of her artistic activity, in Armed Epigenetics, invites a political and philosophical reflection on the ethical and moral dimension inherent in the watershed policy of weapons.

The core of the work that will be on display consists of an installation where the hypertrophic muscles of a bodybuilder become an allegory of a matter in itself, physical and liquid, invasive and contaminating. Luisa Raffaelli says: I built a sort of plural liquid body, made with printed and painted acetates, which is broken down into further parts, made of pectorals, backs, muscles, biceps. In a second basin the powerful back of a nascent and armed man emerges. Active and generative force-based matter. In a second basin the powerful back of a nascent and armed man emerges.

A series of images where weapons are physically part of the body – an epigenetic mutation that also involves the mind and the heart – complete the exhibition.