ROOM 10 – AT THE FOOT OF THE STEPS
Filippo Berta’s intervention culminates in the first two chapters of the triptych A nostra immagine e somiglianza (In our image and likeness), (2017 – ongoing), which investigates the relationship between the individual and the rules imposed by social conventions, by religious dogma. In the first chapter – exhibited as a video documenting a performance realised at Galleria Massimodeluca in Mestre in January 2018 – a number of people simultaneously plant a nail on a wall in order to hang a crucifix: each participant performs the action on tiptoe so that they can place it at a height higher than themselves, in doing so acting out man’s innate need to put himself in a position subordinate to the entity embodied by the idol.
