Personal Belongings

While travelling we must take care of our personal belongings, documents, keys, money, clothes. But in the end the most important thing to take care of, our real belonging, is our body. Forget the key! Don’t forget your head! Don’t forget your heart! While exploring the connection between our inner world and the objects that represent our identity we discover that it’s often based on superficial things, not engaged with our real life.

Our personal belongings may be a demonstration of power, social significance, fashion, consumption, oriented behaviours, beauty ideals, but in the end they all are reflections of our individual identity. In the past, many artists investigated the objects of their daily life, as well as their own personal identity, and later on reminders of them could be found in their works.

This show brings together concepts of identification, private property, possession, as well as symbolisms referring to a life story. Personal belongings have a symbiotic relationship with memory, being themselves remembrances of cozy places that never leave us; they are our Linus’s blanket. Personal belongings are an extension of ourselves, they are a state of mind, they help us in a way to take control of our life. Bags, bodies, suitcases speak their own language, especially now, in our difficult times, when travelling has become very difficult and everybody is under suspicion.

We are all stressed out by the threats and fears that surround us. Travelling is not a pleasure anymore. So, let’s explore our human life through art, giving the viewer a chance to reflect on, and, at the same time, explore all the aspects of it. In doing so we can escape fears and insecurities. The Artwork can be a landscape viewed through an airplane window, and by looking carefully, closer, we can discover the beauty and, beyond the clouds, the sun.