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Tallulah Studio Art in collaboration with Galleria Epipla presents "Being Human", Photographs by Bruna Rotunno photographic project curated by Juliana Curvellano that brings together for the first time both aspects of the work of Bruna Rotunno, an artist who has always explored the nature of being human through photography and video. The title of the exhibition is inspired by one of the photographs in the exhibition in which the phrase Being Human is written on the shirt of a man with a distant gaze in the golden light, standing on the terrace of an anonymous building on the outskirts of New Delhi. Through photographs taken around the planet that hosts us, the artist talks about relativism and the infinite smallness of the human condition compared to the immensity of Nature.

We are made of the same matter as the Universe, water, earth, clouds and stars" - Bruna Rotunno.

What does it mean to be human? It is a simple, concise question that nevertheless reveals the complexity, contradictions, relativity and mystery of human life. This is precisely the lens through which we invite you to see the works in the exhibition. In the video works, which have become an NFT project, conceived during the pandemic, touring Milan (the city where she lives) and photographing the city in a suspended and surreal time, the artist perceives the presence of glimpses of Nature, which existed before urban space. The absence of human beings in the metropolitan landscape has allowed the videoscape to appear in windows that offer us the possibility to regain awareness, to walk again in the original matrix and to remain connected to it through these visionary but equally real passages. Thus an integration between photography and video develops which aims to focus attention on the powerful connection between the human being and nature, which shuns direct narratives, opening wide spaces for interpretation and critical reflection. Together, the images that Bruna Rotunno created for Being Human offer the viewer the opportunity to perceive and rediscover the balance between human beings and Nature, the only hope to be able to reconnect with Mother Earth.

“No one thing shows the greatness and power of the human intellect or the loftiness and nobility of man more than his ability to know and to understand fully and feel strongly his own smallness”