An unprecedented event that combines Art, Society and Health by incorporating an art exhibition of works dedicated to the delicate issue of breast cancer with an important conference linked to prevention and the true and concrete testimony of a drama that is much more than current.
Maria Chiara Cecconi’s project is inspired by personal experiences and it is confronted with the cultural and medical world within the social disarmament that the drama of breast cancer brings to the intimacy of the female universe. The event is a starting point for dialogue and awareness; for a strong operation of Art in the social, as an experience given to the world in all its evocative and communicative power; for a challenge to the Nothing to which the artist does not give up, always keeping alive within herself what inevitably destroys her.

According to the artist, the “wound” is a physical and existential trauma but also an archetype of the indelible sign of a lived experience of pain and “inner death”, which can, however, represent the light and rebirth of a soul that does not dare to give up to nothingness and self-forgetfulness. It is the exorcism of the tragic that makes this great artist the spokesperson of the existential disturbance of the modern human being.

The “wound”, between past and present, serves as a watershed between what was and what will be, in the name of a pain that, lived in its totality, can give life to resilience, or the ability to cope in a positive way with traumatic events, to a positive reorganization of one’s life in the face of difficulties, to rebuild oneself while remaining sensitive to the positive opportunities that life offers, without alienating one’s identity.
The graphic works and the site-specific installation, designed for the occasion by the artist, arouse in the viewer the feeling of being in front of a “life” that has freed itself from the “evil” and that has made of the indelible and immortal sign of the scar a resilient hymn of one’s ego.