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John's Wort was also used against sunburn, drunk as an infusion to overcome depression or interrupt a pregnancy, representing both a regenerating divine gift and a destructive and transformative power. Its scientific name, Hypericum perforatum, refers to the small holes in the leaves of the plant that were said to have been made by the devil with a needle, as revenge for the herb's power against evil spirits. John's Wort, a plant also called Blood of Our Lord, St. The liquid within consists of a mixture of St.

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In Transformation', where a series of bottles filled with a fermenting liquid led to the swelling of white balloons attached to the necks of the bottles. Making Love After Life evolves around the organic installation 'Good Spirits. Transmitted over time by both conquering hegemonic powers and subordinate communities, the symbolic discourse is based on a common and shared vision of life after death, a perspective that inevitably conditions and orients life time.įascinated in particular by the rituals following a death, Drexel focuses on the present neo-liberal regime where collective rituality has shifted into a private and individual dimension, going back to macabre dances and late-medieval folk traditions in which frescoes and visual representations bear witness to joyful and irreverent forms of popular resistance. In particular, it is the symbols associated with the passage from life to death that vividly portray how religious beliefs, popular traditional knowledge and devices of control and fear are intertwined. Margarethe Drexel's practice unfolds around the symbolic apparatuses of the past that still persist in the contemporary world, where they are reprocessed and newly presented. Through organic installations, embroidered textiles and resemantised objects, Drexel continues her research previously presented in the group show The Missing Majority at the gallery's venue in Ortisei. Margarethe Drexel (Ehenbichl, 1982) comes back to Italy to inaugurate Making Love After Life, her first solo exhibition in Italy at Galleria Doris Ghetta Milano.

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