“I confess” is the sentence that introduces artist Raffaela Naldi Rossano’s installation at der TANK. Based in Naples, Raffaela is linked to the Art Institute HGK FHNW in many ways, from her participation in the Venice Summer School to her hosting of students in Naples, where she has initiated and runs an artist residency program.

What comes first, day or night? There is no right answer. They are eternally consecutive, as are the elements displayed in the two rooms. A wall painting of a wave breaks through both spaces. First, we find a series of coral-shaped wooden sculptures, leading us on to the obscurity of the ocean’s depths; there we are greeted by a new family of digitally animated corals, forming and coming apart, playfully giving us a new insight into their morphology.
The exhibition is an invitation to meditate on our approach to vulnerable ecosystems and the danger they are facing due to human activity. And it is also about regeneration, the possibility of life, of the re-emergence of life after destruction.

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