Thick, thin; Pole, German; pink; old, young; Man Woman. All pairs of two seemingly different, clearly separated categories. But who says exactly where the border is?

When do you stop being young and is old? Why does a political, arbitrarily drawn state border decide whether we eat bliny or pancakes? And that a man can be born as a man, but in truth can be a woman, we now know that too.

All borders and categories are homemade

We live in a well-structured, well-ordered world. Where we look, we see borders, categories, drawers. We need that, otherwise we would go crazy. But what we've put together like this is just our HUMAN world, not the truth. In truth, everything merges. Life and the world are a single change, a vast interplay of trillions of small relationships.

Take the categories for orientation: We Europeans believe that North, East, South and West are set and universal. But in various island states in the Pacific people know neither north nor south, but something like "inland" and "seaward". That we live with our borders and drawers, is completely okay - as long as we make it clear again and again that they are not the absolute truth.

"In a photo is always the truth"

Valentina Murabito graduated from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design? in Budapest / Hungary and at the College of Fine Arts? in Catania / Italy. Her works are part of public and private collections, including the SpallArt collection in Salzburg.

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"If I had been born only a few hundred kilometers further south, I might have had to come across the Atlantic as a refugee to Europe," says Sicilian-born artist Valentina Murabito. The Italian has been dealing for years with change and transitions and has expressed this confrontation in impressive works of art.

In a world in which we constantly press on the photo trigger of our smartphone and snapshots are ubiquitous, the 36-year-old has chosen just for the analog photography.

"There's always a piece of truth in a photo, you can edit and distort it as much as you like, but the moment the photo was taken has been there, and that fascinates me," says the artist. "Then I manipulate this image and present the moment differently, then it shows how much one can play with the perception, which is particularly noticeable when you confront the viewer with something out of the ordinary."

Truth is more than we see

So it is precisely the unfamiliar, misleading impressions that irritate Murabito, and which she shows on her artworks. Peaceful goats with interlocked horns that look like angry bulls at first glance through a few cuts. A shadow of bird and human - Murabito shows us an intermediate world, full of beings in transformation and transformation. Seemingly a fantasy world. But in truth - or even just - it, this world of dissolving borders, is the reality. Only that we usually do not see them.

If you want to see Valentina Murabito's works in full size, you can do so from the 18th of January at the Galerie Benjamin Eck in Munich. The exhibition "ANALOGUE Valentina Murabito | ANALOGUE" will run there until March 3rd. Valentina Murabito | Susanna Kraus ".

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