Belloni's research focuses on the unpredictable, on rituals and practices of spirituality Contemporary. In the first place, his work interprets the subsoil as a place of magic and the unknown, where new knowledge is produced. Prediction aft er the blaze is an ongoing project which consists of a series of sculptures on forecasting the future. The artist uses spodomancy, an ancient form of divination in which you can read the signs left by the ashes of a sacred fire to interpret them the meaning. The words produced by the artist thanks to this ritual give life to a new language. Installed on the wall, as a result of a spell, this project interprets the apocalypse, language and rituals as cultural ruins and methods dologies to create a new semantics.
Title: Prediction after the blaze
Author: Jacopo Belloni
Date: 2021
Technique: Ash, gum arabic, vegetable fiber, wool yarn
Displayed in: Re Rebaudengo Palace
In the Exhibition: Badly Buried
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