Benedetta Bonichi

[Andrea Bonazzi]

".after years of research and studies (ranging from philosophy, ancient history and language philosophy to paleethnology and ethology) thanks to the President of the Italian Microbiology Society, she gets into contact with the School of Human Anthropology within the Biology Faculty in Florence and collaborates with some of the American teachers. In 1991 she leaves University dedicating herself to music, dance and mime and founds a theatre company, also beginning drawing, painting and sculpting.
In 1995, by chance, she comes across the article "To see in the dark", written in Germany in 1934.
In light of a Kantian reading of reality of Laurentian features, from 1995 to 1997 she creates approximately fifty sculptures illustrating the theme of shadows. Persuaded by the need to go beyond, "I do not know how to study, describe, nor draw this magnificent obsession that is reality...", Benedetta Bonichi seeks a new type of language. After years of research going beyond aesthetics and ignoring light, in 1999 she creates the first X-ray images...".

".Radiography is more than a technique. It is rather a teknè; that is the only possible "means" to read reality, through matter rather than light. Radiography, together with photography, digitalisation and fresco powders..."

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[Odalisque]

The X-Ray images somehow make the bird/human and octopus/human hybrids seem disturbingly real.