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In Stela Barbieri’s sculptures, the ideas of interior and exterior mix up. The paradoxical idea that entrails and skins, viscera and surfaces, are maybe not identical, but territory of a combat, feeds her Art and explains the fluency in her formal solutions. When Stela gathers these two opposed poles, her work starts wanting everything: knots, laces, sacs, piled up materials, spread objects, hanging things, leaking materials, glued articles. The dilatation of the concept of form follows the near – and also forbidden - perception of inside and outside; it follows a certain indifference for the individualization of one vision, and also for what is displayed in an apparent order. Everything here is a gateway, a cocoon of another cocoon, a hungry and loose skin, in troubled expansion. Matter changes its state and shows its various qualities, becoming the footprint of all forms. What adds notoriety to Stela’s works is her excessive plasticity, as if they could group all the possibilities. There, we can find a fusion between power of expression and extreme passivity, what may lead us to a tragic comprehension of life, as if doing and undoing, freedom and fate, were all the same idea.
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