Uri Aran Untitled (I Love You)

The Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee – museo Madre, Naples presents Untitled (I love you), the first retrospective in an Italian museum of the American artist Uri Aran (Jerusalem, 1977), curated by director of the museum Eva Fabbris. The title of the exhibition is taken from one of Aran’s first and most famous videos and accompanies a journey that is conceived as a retrospective and, by covering approximately 800 square meters, brings together over 170 works, developed through major international loans, the restaging of historical installations and a series of newly conceived works created specifically for Madre. 

The project presented by Aran at Madre, which constitutes a major work in its own right, sits within an artistic trajectory that has explored the ways in which we communicate, behave, perceive, and build relationships with the world and with others for over twenty years. At the center of his work is often language—not only as a tool of communication, but as a space where cultural differences, personal memories, and forms of identity are manifested. Aran uses words, objects, images, and gestures to compose works that seem suspended between the familiar and the unexpected. Through installation, sculpture, video, and painting, he gives shape to rich visual scenarios, where elements of everyday life are deconstructed and reorganized into compositions that evoke fragmentary and open narratives. In a discourse on subjectivity that embraces vulnerability and the complexity of relationships, Aran works at the margins of codified discourse. The exhibition at Madre will comprehensively recount the evolution of his practice from the early 2000s to the present day.

The exhibition, which comprehensively recounts the evolution of his practice from the early 2000s to the present day, will be accompanied by the publication of a catalogue. 

Source: madrenapoli.it