"U ANMAL. Primitivo Presente" explores the persistence of the primordial within contemporary life, framing a perspective in which the ancestral is not a distant, bygone past, but a latent presence—a vibration that continues to echo through the spaces and gestures of our daily existence.

Through a visual language that emphasizes materiality and the traces of what remains, the work invites reflection on the boundary between human and animal—not as separate categories, but as extremes of a physical and ritual relationship that the present has absorbed yet never fully erased.

In this landscape of scorched lands and primitive memories, the human-animal bond reveals itself in its fullest tension: a connection rooted in myth and ritual, now tragically homogenized, standardized by the logics of modernity, seen through an almost exclusively anthropocentric lens. It overlooks the Mediterranean horizon, where the line between life and death grows thin, in Southern Europe, where the light is raw and history layers itself in a visceral, almost tactile way.

The heart of the work lies in the dialectical tension between original nature and its transformation into residue—between instinct and representation, between living matter and its simulacrum. The research unfolds on liminal ground, where sacred and profane overlap, where the wild survives in traces, tracks, or fragments, shadowed by our archaic presence that still claws into the structure of the contemporary world.

Stripped of its original sacredness, the animal is reduced to a slice, a consumable portion, turned into an icon of violated dignity and sacrifices that have lost their ritual value, becoming mere waste of a consumption-driven system. The work examines this objectification, gesturing toward the exploitation of animals, observed at the moment when a being once a companion in existence becomes a pure object, merchandise, or discard.

Seen in this light, the project functions as a poetic, critical, and intentionally partial lens, not claiming to be exhaustive—a short circuit between what was and what remains. It seeks traces of ancient belonging and primal domination, which resurface with the force of an open question. It is an invitation to reflect on the violence embedded in progress and ritual, to linger in the furrow, perhaps to return to the open sea, when primitive force—visceral and unsettling—resurfaces, when our capacity to inhabit the world without destroying the Other falters, revealing that our most archaic roots remain alive. Like a cut. A wound.