Spazio Nuovo Gallery is pleased to present Marco Maria Zanin’s second solo exhibition titled Soil Kinships.
The exhibition introduces a new production developed during this last year by constructing unexpected connections among the current subjects of the artist’s research. Zanin focuses explicitly on objects that span from the tools of the rural life in the Veneto region, where he is
from and lives, to the artefacts belonging to the communities he encountered during his anthropological research in South America. Among which, the Amazonian population of the Yanomami, or the Peruvian Q’ero.
These visual and cultural associations become an installation that takes up the entire gallery space, formed by a series of photographs, ceramic sculptures and spontaneous plants—brought together by the idea, both literal and figurative, of being rooted to the soil and by the artist’s will to generate new kinships among environments and cultures in continuous migration. The objects
analysed by Zanin are treated as activators of social and human relations. These new juxtapositions and mixes result from intercultural processes; thus, they are no longer manufactured goods but rather new bodies, heirs of their original environment and now in a dialogue among themselves.
Soil Kinships offers itself as a laboratory example for rethinking anthropology and its legacies in the light of a decolonial artistic practice.