“If it is true that man seeks in monsters, by contrast, a stable image of
himself, it is no less certain that monstrosity attracts him as a sort of
vanishing point of his becoming-unhuman: a becoming-animal,
becoming-vegetable or mineral. Two forces of opposite direction are
blended in it: a tendency to metamorphosis, and the horror, the panic of
becoming another.” [ 1 ]

ANOMALIA: the threshold of perception

The first exhibition by artist Élle de Bernardini (Itaqui, RS, Brazil, 1991) at Galeria Portas Vilaseca, titled ANOMALIA, inaugurates an intriguing intertwining among Élle’s visual compositions and the concept of anomaly, a term deriving from modern medicine and used widely as a subterfuge for enouncing every sort of violence and discrimina...