For Cannon Fodder, first personal exhibition of Giuditta Branconi in an institutional location, the young artist has created a series of new paintings and a large installation of painted canvases that visitors can actually walk through.
The title of the exhibition alludes to bodies that can be sacrificed, to raw material doomed to be swallowed up by a larger system. Shifting from the military sense to a visual and symbolic dimension, Branconi’s images become ammunition for denouncing the violence and oppression of our times: compressed, charged, ready to detonate on the surface of the canvas, in an explosion not only of form, but of emotion and politics - an overload that rejects all composure.
