Making Special, labirinti

Caterina Morigi revisits in contemporary terms the traces of human presence embedded in the stone of rock carvings. The sculptural series Making Special condenses the character of human error with the imperfection of machines and the uncertainty of interpretation, overturning ancient forms to bring them back into the present.
I would like to read the works with the ‘Jungian’ method, through the symbol, which is always bound to human inwardness. I start from the labyrinth, an abstract idea that has broadly held our timeless interest. In the myths of antiquity some are believed to have been built to deceive demons and to have had a power of attraction. In other cases ancestral representations, circular or elliptical, are thought to have mirrored the movements of the stars, complementary to earthly labyrinths, standing for the loss of orientation, in order to defend and find one’s (own) centre.
For Jung, the sun is the symbol of the Self and of identity; for Egyptian civilisation it was embodied by Horus, son of Isis and Osiris. The sun rejoins the labyrinth because, according to Eliade, it stands for the generative and unifying rotary movement.
The Making Special series was made in collaboration with Ultravioletto and the company Masutti Marmi. The title takes up the theories of the anthropologist Ellen Dissanayake, who argues that artists, like human and animal mothers, have tended to make ordinary things special ever since the prehistoric times in which sacred rituals arose.