".........in progress"

The etymology of the Italian word "progress", from the Latin "progressus" which means walk forward, is a concept that contains and supports the themes of my research. It would be a paradox to "lock" the concept in specific and characteristic terms. So even the title of this exhibition becomes an open and continuous performance and it correlates with other people, inviting the guests to write the title inspired by the first letter suggested on the label, to relunch immediately all the thoughts in time of the change: in progress, in fact.

Mariantonietta Bagliato was born in 1985. She graduated at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bari with a second level degree. Her research is influenced by an imagination that draws its origins from the theater. She has been working for years in the theater of puppets created by the Prague-born mother, Ivana Bubnova. In the fields of visual arts she tries to create an union between the artistic research and theater, experiencing various disciplines including performance, installations, drawings and actions of public art. In all these fields, the investigation is focused on subjects concerning a fluid identity where the inner self becomes a fragmented stream of consciousness, an entity which is difficult to stop. In her artistic investigation, Mariantonietta, often uses many types of fabrics as a visual code to stop the flow of the present. The cloth, in fact, becomes the story of the everyday life and evokes unconscious, collective memories of colors, sounds and atmosphere where all of us can recognize parts of ourselves.