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Riccardo D'Avola-Corte, You will never understand what your caresses leave on me… (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Final Hot Desert, Salt Lake City.
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Riccardo D'Avola-Corte, You will never understand what your caresses leave on me… (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Final Hot Desert, Salt Lake City.
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Riccardo D'Avola-Corte, You will never understand what your caresses leave on me… (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Final Hot Desert, Salt Lake City.
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Riccardo D'Avola-Corte, You will never understand what your caresses leave on me… (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Final Hot Desert, Salt Lake City.
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Riccardo D'Avola-Corte, You will never understand what your caresses leave on me… (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Final Hot Desert, Salt Lake City.
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Riccardo D'Avola-Corte, You will never understand what your caresses leave on me… (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Final Hot Desert, Salt Lake City.
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Riccardo D'Avola-Corte, You will never understand what your caresses leave on me… (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Final Hot Desert, Salt Lake City.
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Riccardo D'Avola-Corte, You will never understand what your caresses leave on me… (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Final Hot Desert, Salt Lake City.
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Riccardo D'Avola-Corte, You will never understand what your caresses leave on me… (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Final Hot Desert, Salt Lake City.
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Riccardo D'Avola-Corte, You will never understand what your caresses leave on me… (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Final Hot Desert, Salt Lake City.
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Riccardo D'Avola-Corte, You will never understand what your caresses leave on me… (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Final Hot Desert, Salt Lake City.
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Riccardo D'Avola-Corte, You will never understand what your caresses leave on me… (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Final Hot Desert, Salt Lake City.
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Riccardo D'Avola-Corte, You will never understand what your caresses leave on me… (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Final Hot Desert, Salt Lake City.
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Riccardo D'Avola-Corte, You will never understand what your caresses leave on me… (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Final Hot Desert, Salt Lake City.
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Riccardo D'Avola-Corte, You will never understand what your caresses leave on me… (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Final Hot Desert, Salt Lake City.

Anthropocene gloom & a shaky embrace from nature in Riccardo D’Avola-Corte’s offsite show at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats

, 18 November 2019

Riccardo D’Avola-Corte‘s You will never understand what your caresses leave on me… solo exhibition was organised offsite by Final Hot Desert at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats, running July 14 to August 20.

Riccardo D’Avola-Corte, You will never understand what your caresses leave on me… (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Final Hot Desert, Salt Lake City.

Set against the densely packed pan of the Great Salt Lake, carcass-like forms made from both organic and synthetic matter starkly contrasted with the landscape, raising the tenuous relationship between humans and nature with a sense of anthropocene gloom. As the press release evocatively notes:

“Humankind prays for Mother Nature’s affection as they suck the blood from her neck. She shakes their foundations and drowns their cities as she holds them in her gentle arms.”**

Riccardo D’Avola-Corte’s You will never understand what your caresses leave on me… was on at Final Hot Desert in the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, running July 14 to August 20, 2019.