Collection: Valentina Murabito

Valentina Murabito's analogue photographs position themselves on this path of sculptures and paintings, whereby each photograph is unique, fixed on unconventional materials such as brick, bronze and wood, and in which reality is staged and reworked by changing the surfaces.
Valentina Murabito's works provide insights into an in-between world that keeps animals and humans trapped behind a veil of melancholy: They function as portals that allow the viewer to look behind the facade of reality, to cross the boundaries of the familiar and to enter a sphere between fixed categories. In her paintings, animals and humans enter into a dialogic entanglement that seemingly makes them hybrid beings. The established relationship between subject and object is suspended without offering an immediate alternative. Triggered by the refusal to provide binding answers, a feeling of oppression spreads in the viewer that must be endured when receiving Murabito's works. Her pictures reject the capitalist premise of unquestioned human supremacy. The resulting power vacuum is not filled, but rather allows animals and humans to congenially meet in an archaic-seeming encounter.