Artist Lucia Ferrara presents the work “Tav 3,” part of the larger pictorial cycle of the NEVER PERFECT project, launched in 2017, for which the artist holds all rights.
Acrylic on canvas, dimensions 240×200 cm
“Never Perfect” is a social and museum project, but also a commitment, a mission to bring people closer, through art, to human stories.
The Never Perfect project is a story told through images and, as such, follows a structural logic similar to that of a book or a fairy tale, and on DNheArt, this is how it will be presented.
Here we are at a new appointment with DNheArt and the new canvas of the project, this time focusing on Table 3.
In this pictorial work, the artist continues the story of her own human experience, so similar to that of all of us, because each of us, as human beings, is called upon to experience experiences, traumas, pains, and difficulties in our lives that enable us to look within and rediscover the strength and courage to acknowledge these wounds.
Looking at pain and acknowledging it as such, “discovering” ourselves to ourselves and then to others as fragile beings, is the first step toward potential healing and rebirth.
In the canvas, the woman depicted shows a bleeding heart in the center of her chest, a symbolic sign of the trauma that finally reveals itself to the world, to her audience, like a tattoo, metaphorically as something beautiful, artistic, albeit cruel.
Pain comes in many forms, and each person’s experience is different, as it is personal and tied to their personality and subjective sensitivity.
Pain is often “recognized” only when it’s visible, but there are
situations in which the physical or emotional suffering manifested doesn’t correspond to an obvious organic cause, but is the expression of a deep or unexpressed internal distress.
Countless times, when we experience profound trauma, the body communicates what the mind blocks: Physical pain can arise when we try to suppress emotions, words, or tears.
Pain is real even without an organic cause because even if there’s no physical injury, mental pain is real for those who experience it and significantly impacts their quality of life.
It’s extremely easy to find ourselves faced with pain-avoidance mechanisms; we try to deny or eradicate pain by not accepting it as a natural part of life.
Our society tends to avoid pain, but true overcoming occurs only by accepting the experience; the cure for pain often lies within the pain itself, and facing it directly is the only way out.
Observing one’s body during a painful experience can reduce one’s perception of it, hence the choice not to hide but to expose, tea becoming a mirror.
Going through pain isn’t just about enduring it, but learning to manage and transform it, recomposing ourselves, recognizing it as a useful signal rather than just an enemy. Art, in all of this, expresses the desire not to emphasize it, but to make it a “normal” part of an experience that reminds us that our human imperfection, physical and/or psychophysical, also contains our capacity for catharsis and regeneration.
Lucia Ferrara
Lucia Ferrara
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