Sarah Ciracì, ying yang bang until 25.09. Blindarte Contemporeane Napoli (I)

One of the protagonist of the last Sarah Ciraci's works is the mushroom cloud. The explosions, consequent upon the use of nuclear weapons, are always filmed from media and spread to the collectivity, but as it often happens in the ambiguous contemporary information, the attention is focused more on the spectacularity of the event than on its consequences. The mushroom cloud is entered in the collective imagination, and the superficiality of its representation has mitigated its catastrophic image. The artist, conscious of that, depicts on canvas the same mushroom clouds spread by media, in this way she attests the use of the mass destruction's weapons. The original paintings permit the vision only if illuminated by ultraviolet light, in absence of it the canvas appairs as white monochrome. Sideways of the canvas little luminous led are mounted switching on and off, it makes visible repeated and continuous explosions able to involve the entire exhibition space, and able to track down in the collective conscience the last essence, the archetype, that is present in everything. Steming from the scientific research, as often in her works, Sarah Cirac®¨ investigates on the origins of the phenomenon and find the real cause in the atom, as the primary element and the generator, through the human handling, of disaster of Cyclopian dimension. In this way the little atom, or the Tao archetype that represents it, holds the important role that is due to itself, between the enhancement of its omnipresence, and the fear for the consequences that could originate from its improper use: " remember, you are an atom and an atom you could become again". The strong link with the scientific studies and the interest for the continual tecnological innovations draw the artist to present the new works with very original aestetical and formal solutions that characterize her role of technological art pioneer. Perhaps for these reasons the artist uses her works "to exorcize her and collective fears". The use of scientific and technological innovations can be considered a weapon, often handled by a few, able to have ripercussions on the whole comunity. If the huge catastrophes of the past are the confirmation of it, the worrying actual balances and the extraterrestrial presences threats, always more documented, do not promise us a reassuring future: ying yang bang!