Anna NeroUse

The exhibition ‘USE’ shows Anna Nero’s latest works: paintings and ceramics with bold colors and chubby shapes.

Anna Nero commits to unveiling the ambivalent features of modern relationships. In her paintings, stylized 2D objects and different layouts play with emotions. The dynamic backgrounds treated as smooth surfaces receive the round shapes’ artifacts that seem to have been placed intentionally there to be used or, at least, to suggest playful and lecherous thoughts. Through their peculiar forms and shiny textures, they seduce then build up surreptitiously the red thread that leads to excitation and can even be the trigger of a feeling of “love at first sight”. Look at this kind of blue phallus erected on a glossy and metallic red scarf that dangles lazily above a solid green structure… A scene that might remind us of some intimate and solitary pleasure. Flirting back and forth within a mysterious atmosphere of voyeurism, these objects swing between geometric backgrounds and surreal shades of light that feel somehow melancholic.

Everything remains frivolous for Anna Nero, as if these objects were playing maliciously by their own rules and were having their own bandwidth. They induce a sexy urge that incites us to become their prisoners, and when the desire comes to its climax, we have the choice between domination and submission. However, there is no proof that they are for use and it is up to us to make the right call. For Anna Nero, the form itself dictates our final decision, to be ‘in’ or ‘out’ of the game.

Anna Nero replays the symptoms and practices of our modern relationships such as Ghosting, Breadcrumbing, Love-Bombing and even, Bad-Sex-Dating – all of them being our darker remains and secrets of our romantic and interpersonal relationships that the artist likes very much to expose in a humoristic and direct way...