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Anna Perach presents an installation formed of three sculptural elements
Gasp, 2021. Installation view at ADA, Rome. All artworks by Anna Perach. Courtesy of ADA, Rome. Sound credits: Jaime Hamilton Photo: Roberto Apa.
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.- For her solo exhibition at ADA, Anna Perach presents an installation formed of three sculptural elements. Conceptually this exhibition explores the narrative of the detachment of the head and body in the female form. The sculptures more specifically investigate the brutality of the compartmentalisation of feminine body throughout different resources and stories in Western history.
Seven Wives, 2020, consists of seven tufted heads hanging on a hemp rope by S-shaped hooks often used for hanging meat. Each head represents the one of the seven female archetypes proposed by psychoanalyst Carl Jung: maiden, huntress, lover, queen, mystic, sage and mother. The idea of hanging the heads draws its inspiration from an illustration for the folktale of Bluebeard depi