Artists

Elena Damiani

Press release

Weather Bodies expands upon Damiani’s ongoing exploration of materiality and temporality, positioning weather as a condition of coexistence between bodies and environments. The exhibition represents a continuation of the artist’s interest in geological and ecological processes, employing sculptural forms to propose a shared and evolving understanding of a world in flux and of the interdependence of all things. By collapsing the distinctions between the human and the geological, the temporal and the timeless, Damiani proposes a reconsideration of the dynamic processes that shape our world and ourselves.

The exhibition reflects on the multiple dimensions of the concepts of weather and weathering, examining their roles as transformative forces that surpass human perception while deeply shaping material and ecological processes. Weather is understood as both fleeting and expansive—a storm, a season, and an agent of geological and ecological change. To weather is to endure and transform, an ongoing interplay of forces that destabilizes fixed notions of matter and form.

This framework informs the works on view, in which Damiani draws attention to the interconnectivity between organic and inorganic realms. The sculptures, made from marble, copper, and bronze, resemble plant-like shapes, cellular forms, and traces of vitality embedded in mineral substrates. These compositions explore the porous boundaries between life and non-life, engaging with themes of decay, resilience, and mutual transformation. The materials, shaped over millennia by planetary processes, actively participate in this dialogue, embodying histories of change, adaptation, and reconfiguration.