Oltre il sangue amaro (Beyond the bitter blood)
MO.CA. (Museum for new Culture) Brescia
Curated with Giorgia Massari

To make bitter blood. Smouldering bitter blood. Being irritated, embittered. Don't forget, don’t forgive. "Sangue amaro" (“bitter blood”) refers first of all to a dimension of resentment, of coexistence with reminiscences of events with which it is difficult to reconcile, projected into sensitive reactions. This bitterness that circulates in our blood reaffirms the existence of a feeling so strong that it is able to permeate the whole individual. Among the locutions that refer to red lymph, in this case there is an allusion to the "transfer of bile", a stimulus to the production of bile salts, caused by an excess of anger, capable of transfusing the bitter taste into the blood. In fact the somatization, that is a sensitive reaction to a psychological state, forces real consequences on the body. The exhibition "Oltre il sangue amaro" comes to life with the intention of setting up a discourse that deals with the diversification of pain and its psychosomatic reactions, revealing the forms that can acquire within a different personal path of growth and suffering. The prefix “Oltre” (beyond) explains the need to not limit the analysis to a single reading of pain but to expand it to aesthetics arising from diverse emotional experiences. Moreover this project takes inspiration from the collection of daily stories by the Italian poet Valerio Magrelli, entitled, precisely, “Sangue Amaro” (“Bitter Blood")