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.
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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.