Priscilla Imbriani

The most important fragments of the past become pure sight and deep reflection on the emotional spheres which have been irreversibly changed by the consumer society. Persuasion is clear by now, it dominates every action and ethical/moral thought, it affects immediately every emotional state by changing and altering the main needs and the human relationships. Matter has absorbed soul.

Connections with forms of pleasure are not apart: it's all compromised by the sense of "rejection" meant as wastefulness, the sense of pleasure consumes up to the ephemeral phase and up to a threshold of rationality satisfied by excess. By becoming object of consumption, we are later destined to rejection: in individualism and nihilism there isn't any possibility of further transformation.

If once the painter, by gathering all his vital force, stopped the circumstance before further transformation ("Pictor - the painter, the artist -, succeeds in stopping what is temporary just before what changes continuously has accomplished its further metamorphosis". Pictor's metamorphosis, H. Hesse), I represent a static, distressing and respectably smart phase of stagnation of the human condition: we live immobility in the chaos and our immobility is parado...

Graduate, Master - Accademia Belle Arti - Rome, Italy

2001 - Collective Art Exhibition La Chimera, Lecce, 24 August / 02 September
2001 - Collective Art Exhibition Fondazione MEMMO, Lecce, 27/29 October
2002 - Collective Art Exhibition and Extempore Fior Di Barocco, Lecce, May
2002 - Collective Art Exhibition and Extempore Le tentazioni di Sant' Antonio Abate, Pinacoteca di Novoli, Lecce, 15/25 January
2003 - Collective Art Exhibition Ulivo simbolo di pace, Biblioteca Diocesana, Ostuni, Brindisi, 3/11 August
2004 - Collective Art Exhibition Enel, Brindisi
2008 - Collective Exhibition National graphic contest OOPP Apulia, 1st classified, Salento, May/June
2010 - Collective Art Exhibition and Extempore The Riviera Art, Santa Cesarea Terme, Lecce, 27 June / 03 July
2013 - Collective Art Exhibition Note al Chiaro di Luna Tribute to poet Alda Merini, Trepuzzi, Lecce 23/31 August