Don’t Bite Me!

Don’t Bite Me!
International Art Symposium
Naples, Italy
September 15-25, 2019

Exhibition

24-25 September 2019
Opening: 18:00
Made in Cloister foundation
Piazza Enrico de Nicola, 48, 80139 Naples NA

Art director: Tima Jam
Coordinator: Damla Yalcin
Assistant curator: Alberto Michalette, Marta Ferrara.
Collaboration with : Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli , Made in Cloister, Beirut Co., Giosi.

Artists:
Baran Kurtoglu, Barış Cihanoğlu, Damla Yalcin, Dicle Ciftci, Diego Cibeli, Federica Fetz, Francesco Avventuriero, Francesco Ciotola, Ian Rayer Smith, Katarina Djordjevic, Kerim Klicarslan, Lucia Schettino, Mahdiye Abolhassan, Maria Tirotta, Marjana Goxhabelliu, Mustafa Arapi, Ozge Enginoz, Sanja Lotinovic, Sasha Zelenkevich, Wael Darwesh, Zahra Mohammedi

I couldn’t see anything…
My eyes were full of fog.
Thick smoke, I walked and walked,
I knew nothing.
I could hear whispers, they got closer and closer
I could not understand.
Their faces were covered in smoke.
I didn’t know if they would save me or take me away!
I just wanted to scream: don’t bite me!
But I kept walking and walking,
I couldn’t see anything

Blue Rhino Art consultancy on September 24th at 18:00, presents “DON’T BITE ME!” which is a collective exhibition, housed in the extraordinary sixteenth-century cloister of the Church of Santa Caterina a Formiello – whose large monumental complex is among the most important examples of Neapolitan Renaissance.

The exhibition is the final project of an artist’s residency which local and non-local artists took part, screams Don’t bite me! Showcasing works of a broad range of mediums – from figurative painting to embroidery to photography to sculpting – made by a diversity of artists, from Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Uk, Serbia, Belgrade, Italy, Albania,Belarus. The fundamental concept at the base of this strong exclamation is the search for security-insecurity that lies behind the many paradoxes that our body lives with the taxation of the city and, in general, to the body of the other.

The paradox is also the diversity that can arise from the need to change the point of view, through the look and gestures of a range of professionals and new international discoveries, it is possible to read this so intimate topic from a broad perspective.