Traveling in the underground worlds also means looking within, in our depths. For Badly Buried, Eleonora Luccarini plunged into the abyss of her multidimensional self. Through the performance and the moving images, the artist introduces us to his alter ego Léonard Santé, a white cisgender man in an identity crisis. In the performance Léonard Santé 13 poems (2020), the artist reads poems written by Santé. The two personalities struggle through the artist's body as Santé's words echo. Another disturbing presence is perceived: a ghost dominatrix, whose black fetish boots stand next to Luccarini, who is also invoked in Santé's poem “I never kissed a shoe / until yesterday / It's enough for me to know / my girls don 't wear heels just to seem taller ”. At the end of the performance Luccarini finally disappears, leaving the space to be occupied by the invisible presence of Leonard Santé and the phantom dominatrix. In the video 4 hooves don't leave footprints (2021), Santé appears visually for the first time, albeit only as a character in computer-generated imagery (CGI). His creepy childish face contrasts with the bleak scenario of a car accident. The work exists between the clutches of different identities: that of a child who speaks like an adult and a sinner, as well as that between the alter ego and the artist, whose voice conveys his poetry.
Title: 4 hooves don't leave footprints
Author: Eleonora Luccarini
Date: 2021
Technique: Video with CGI animation
Displayed in: Re Rebaudengo Palace
In the Exhibition: Badly Buried
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