ENRICA BORGHI

The materials are the frustrate housewife paraphernalia, with every day use objects such as shopping bags, differentiated waste collection rejects, biscuits and feathers, tin foil, hair rolls, but the effect is the visionary and charming one of a fairy tale. It is in this way that Enrica Borghi, one of the most valued young artists in Italy, creates her sculpture-clothes, or her own installations that reproduce, with the same fictitious materials, home settings as well as fashion show-rooms.

In one of her exhibitions we may find mats made with colourful marbles, glittering trains made out of plastic bottles, delicate nylon slips, necklaces and accessories made with shiny sweets wrappers.

Most of the time it is a seduction game, of a body that is evoked, implied, that needs to be dressed, but the queen-like clothes that shine under the spot lights are often made out of waste materials.

Such a message can be read both in an environmental key and as the playful, domestic parody of an ephemeral luxury, a false fairy tale that finally realises the King is naked.