In Heimat aus der Ferne, Carmine Antonio Iacolare searches for the distance required to see, to understand, and to let go. Heimat—the charged place of origin—appears here not as something tangible, but as a memory that always remains just out of reach. That very distance nourishes both melancholy and the possibility of reorientation.
Iacolare works with what nature offers him and what rural life leaves behind: antlers, hides, fat, bones, remains from farms and tanneries. These animal remnants are recontextualized into fragile compositions. They are not presented as weapons or trophies, but approached with tenderness—sensitive, vulnerable, half-transparent. In this way, a balance emerges, a tension between origin and transformation.
The works have no titles. Here, Iacolare leaves a silence. It is a meaningful silence, one that sustains the conversation. A connecting silence that resists the clamour of the surrounding world.
Heimat aus der Ferne becomes a layered home, in which we may trust our own Sehnsucht, and where loss and longing embrace each other.
Text by Niko Goffin