Meanings and Materialities
Meanings and Materialities
Exhibition 6–15 June
Open every day 12:00-18:00Aurora del Rio
Video installation (2024)
Aurora Del Rio’s artistic research considers how myth and belief interfere with the creation of
personal and collective realities, with a focus on radioactive contamination. The video
installation looks at radioactive inheritance as a dangerous gift, following the German
meaning of the word Gift as poison. Developed departing from conversations 1 on the possible
meaning of gift-giving and receiving concerning the construction of a deep repository for
nuclear waste storage in Finland, the artwork aims at both exploring and challenging this idea.
The images generated from the conversation, themselves also a given and received gift,
became possible future rituals.
Aurora Del Rio is a Doctoral Researcher at Aalto University (FI) and a multidisciplinary artist. She holds a BA in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts Bologna, and an MFA in Creative Practice from Transart Institute Berlin/New York. Her research and artistic practice investigates how the reading of symbolic images interferes with the creation of personal and collective realities. Her current focus looks at radioactive contamination from a new materialist perspective. She is interested in the space of potentiality that originates when a definition is avoided or misplaced, and the liminal space of failure.