KALLHENIS
2024
Comi's work stems from his study of the archaic peasant culture of the Pollino. In this isolated reality, eros and magic came together, giving rise to rituals necessary to justify various aspects of intimacy, among them: female homosexuality, seen not as free will, but as predestination. The artist thus proposes two works in close dialogue, which bring these rituals back to life, using archive images reworked using artificial intelligence. The ‘sbraie’, lesbians with an androgynous appearance, considered sorceresses capable of healing hysteria and venereal diseases; and a supine young woman, on which she places coloured corn kernels, tangible stigmas of the tension between instinct and cultural control.
è simenta fuornici sbraiata, è acqua chi sane e chi ristore,
è iazzu chi stute lu furori,
è fuocu chi l'acqua ti addissicche; biniditta chini l'ha criata,
biniditta 'a donna chi la tene
UNKNOWN 03/09
2025
Alt_ra²
Our identity is, by definition, provisional and fragile. Every year, about one thousand corpses without identity are found in Italy. Many of these bodies are not recognised and, consequently, do not receive a dignified burial. The starting point of the project is images extrapolated from the National Register of Unidentified Corpses, which collects the most significant information on the physiognomic characteristics and circumstances of the discovery of the bodies. From the two-dimensional photographs of the bodies, sculptures glorifying the missing persons were generated. These busts are covered with a pattern composed of a set of QR codes, which refer to identities created by a random generator of fictitious identities. The intention of the work is to give them a new identity and to remember them forever in a heroic manner.
