Itu, Brasil
06/05/2023 - 31/07/2023

Denise Milan’s solo exhibition “Magmatic Uterus” features 20 art pieces, 13 of which have never been exhibited before. The exhibition takes us through a pilgrimage to the source of Mother Earth’s creativity.

The first room showcases containers of a cosmic broth that predates the appearance of humanity. These works remind us of the origins of the matter that formed the stones in this exhibition. On the right side of the room is “TrincAr,” a piece that shows the volcanic cracks in the planet’s body, through which magmatic lava flows. These cracks are associated with human cracks. We all have a crack in our lives.

Through them, we can understand how matter is in constant transformation. Everything is energy and the crystallizations are not static moments, but marks of the vitality of gestation, as we see in the work “Cicatriz.” On the other side of the room are the quartz ideograms, which form the “Language of the Stone,” created by Denise, who immersed herself in this universe forty years ago. Each ideogram reflects the movement of quartz atoms and molecules, relating to the dynamics of our emotions and feelings, their affinities and antagonisms. Moving forward, we are invit ed to interact with the installation “Magmatic Uterus.” Through a peephole we find a rose quartz formed a hundred-and-thirty-million years ago, pulsating with the potential of fertilization that leads to all creation on the planet. From the Earth, a feminine principle arises, present in nature, in every man, in every woman, offering the fertilization of ideas, imagination and dreams. The cracks are also an essential part of the creation process. They are linked to the moment of birth when the placenta breaks and the child is born… like the cracks of health, like the fracturing of memory and like the broken heart.

When we enter the second room, we are attracted by the “Olhar Mater.” The gaze that comes from the stone invites us to the Magmatic Banquet where food cooked millions and millions of years ago is served. We hear a call to taste the knowledge and flavors of the underground. For this celebration, the Proto-humans, the first sketches of our human figure, arrived from the imagination of the Earth, a hundred-and-thirty-million years ago, accompanied by the volcanic Entities.

Among the “Proto-Humans,” the “Third Eye” invites us to discover, through the peephole, the original stone from which they emerged. This is the moment of revelation: the Proto-human looks at us and the stone ceases to be an object and becomes a protagonist. In this exhibition, the artist proposes a new experience: with the transformation of our position in relation to nature, we become part of it and of a greater journey.