Carmela Cucuzzella believes that art starts in science and philosophy and must take advantage of research and writing. Her work is grounded on a profound understanding of visual analogies and is the result of a long running meditation on critical themes. In her art lab, she considers the human body as the ultimate encounter of nature and culture.
Recently in her written work, she has been criticizing contemporary environmental strategies, which have neglected the deeper connections and structures generally opposing built, human, and natural environments. She considers that some of her own artwork offers new ways to conceptualize human’s place in the wider scope through the recollection of mythological worlds.
The stained body series explores the contemporary contradictions of our prude and pornographic cultures. The analogy between the adaptability of disturbance in the drawing and the disturbance in our contemporary world is fundamental. Carmela overloads the drawings with these stains while seeking to reach the ultimate point of recognition of the original bodies. This delicate work of the intricacy between the floating bodies and stains is a work of harmonization analogous to the pursuit of harmonization with our very environment.