Ketty La Rocca

Dal momento in cui…

The artist Ketty La Rocca occupies a singular place in the landscape of italian art of the 1960s. Her exhibition at Fri Art focuses on a selection of collages she made in affinity with the Poesia visiva, a movement that sought to rethink the impact of art on society by borrowing certain forms from mass media. In her collages, a sharp irony emerges from the clash between images and text. She lays bare links between a supposed emancipation of women through and the actual objectification of the body in consumer society. Stunned by an environment that too often reduced her to her feminism, and progressively disillusioned as to the transformative potential of art, the artist deploys a powerful and solitary reflection around communication and its impossibility.  Dal Momento in cui… focuses on the use of language and nonsense as a poetic strategy that runs through La Rocca’s work.