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Marina Profumo

Ceranesi Genova Italy, Liguria, Italy

Marina Profumo was born in 1960 at Ceranesi, near Genova, where she still lives.
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LETHAL PARASITES
2010

Sculpture made of concrete, shoe, printed plastic sheet, paper, paint.
Size: cm 44 x 20 x 12

The opera consists in a boot where have been pasted the logos of all the Italian political parties and a printed plastic sheet with the draw of a brain with the colours of the Italian flag.

The boot is the symbol of the Italian peninsula.
The logos of parties symbolize the parasites.
The printed plastic sheet with the draw of a brain and Italian flag represents the Italian people.

The boot crashed and lying on the ground as a carcass. The lethal parasites cover it completely and suck his life. The crucial point (the brain) is flowing out, liquefied, exhausted and lifeless.