METRONOM

Punto di Rottura is a duo exhibition featuring Eeva Hannula and Daniele Marzorati, showcasing a selection of the artists’ most recent works.

In archaeology, decay and conservation are not opposites, but interdependent forces acting upon matter in view of its survival. Even what conserves is subject to transformation: to preserve means, inevitably, to alter. The term “decay” suggests loss, but it actually describes a natural process—the physical mutation of objects over time. Human intervention—building, protecting, monumentalizing—is a symbolic response to passage, an attempt to give form to duration. In the context of contemporary art, these processes translate into practices that question matter and image as spaces of transition. The object is an affirmative force; the concept, what sediments and endures. Between these poles move Eeva Hannula and Daniele Marzorati, adopting strategies of recovery and reworking that reject historical linearity in favor of a visual and mental migration. Hannula creates photographic collages, sculptural elements, and visual poems that relate physical and digital traces, exploring the relationships between memory and image. Marzorati, in his Mare Desiderii series, takes the monument as a stereotypical form of collective memory and then disarticulates it through the passage between media—analog photography and drawing—producing not substitution, but multiplication. In both cases, it is in the shift, in the interstice between rupture and transformation, that a critical, poetic, and contemporary space opens up.

Eeva Hannula (Helsinki, 1983) graduated as a visual artist from the Turku Arts Academy in 2012 and completed her Master’s degree in Photography at Aalto University in 2017. She also studied Aesthetics and Literature at the University of Helsinki and Creative Writing at the Critical Academy in Finland. Her recent exhibitions include: The image was wide and it swayed towards, Forum Box Gallery, Helsinki, FI (2023); There is a possibility in this room to think of the edge and falling over it, Gallery Ratamo, Jyväskylä, FI (2021); These are gestures small scenes at hand, Gallery Rajatila, Tampere, FI (2021).

Daniele Marzorati (Cantù, 1988) graduated in 2007 and earned a Master’s degree in 2013 in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies at NABA in Milan, where he currently teaches photography. His recent exhibitions include: Beginnings, Nonostante Marras, Milan, IT (2023); Déplacement, Building, Milan, IT (2019); Crossing Line, San Paolo Invest, Monza, IT (2019); In linea d’aria, oTTo Space, Milan, IT (2017).

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Punto di rottura
From 14 maggio to 26 luglio 2024
Metronom, Via carteria 10, 41121, Modena