黑料不打烊

The objects in v. nico d鈥檈ntremont鈥檚 Spiritual Technologies emerge from practices rooted in Sicilian Folk Magic to address subjects of intergenerational trauma and gendered violence.  Believing that 鈥渋ntergenerational trauma鈥� has existed long before this term was coined, the artist proposes that in various cultural contexts, we could better understand and even heal this phenomenon as a generational 鈥渃urse.鈥� Following the death of their maternal grandmother in 2018, d鈥檈ntremont began researching ancestral practices from the island of Sicily for casting and releasing a curse.

The artist came across a description of an object created for the purpose of casting a curse; an account of its discovery in the home of its mark, and the steps by which the curse was released through the incineration of the object. Adapting these instructions to their studio practice, d鈥檈ntremont developed Made Real by Process of Annihilation. In this ongoing series of burnout castings, objects are created to metaphorically and metaphysically embody the artist鈥檚 persistent intergenerational traumas and then transformed through incineration, leaving behind an uncanny substitution, cast in bronze.