The work presented in this exhibition takes its approach in the forest landscape. In terms of ideas, Renata Francescon has gone back to the forest through myths, fairy tales and literature's representations of the mysterious, the invisible, often identified as the unknown, the hidden, filled with secrets and mystical beings such as the forest nymph, the mistress of the forest in Nordic folklore, or as the dark forest in which Dante finds himself alone in the allegorical epic The Divine Comedy.
These and other depictions of the forest connect it to the obscure, which can contain both the fantastic and the horrible. The interplay between the real and the imagined could be a way to approach reality from a different perspective than the ordinary; there may be more to our reality than what is disclosed to the eye.
Vernissage: 14/11, 18:00–21:00
Renata Francescon is lecturer in ceramic art at HDK-Valand, Gothenburg University.
