ArtSharing Rome proposes through the exhibition Dolls’ dreams a "gothic" reinterpretation of Christmas, toys and dolls through the comparative work of Gianluca Esposito and Lauraballa.There is a long literary and anthropological tradition in this direction: dolls and toys intended as fetishes, symbols, alter egos, objects of desire and - above all - living beings who dream of us while we dream of them.Gianluca Esposito and Lauraballa propose a vision of the doll, which starts from the fetish and the horror dimension of the fairy tale, to re-read the story and reverse the roles.Gianluca Esposito presents "He sleeps like a dead man, sweats like a pig": it is a series dedicated to Maria Carolina of Austria whose title is a phrase referable to a period gossip about the relationship between Maria Carolina and Ferdinando, King of Naples and their story.Through his works in sculpture and collages, theaters and ceramic puppets of the Neapolitan tradition, small apparently harmless toys, he lucidly analyzes the contradictions of that era and our present. Not a philological operation in the strict sense of the term, but an emotional and disenchanted interpretation of the fate of characters whose life has now become mythology.Lauraballa moves in the world of traditional fairy tales, with characters deprived of the formal hypocrisy of which the literary narrative covers them, drawing from them the most disturbing and disconcerting aspects.Lauraballa's subjects are all female: Pinocchia, the Cat in Boots, women with hieratic heads are the protagonists of stories that move, like her paintings, on the surface of conscience, floating between dreams and reality.The theme is the subject of a conversation between Gianluca Esposito and the anthropologist Caterina Giannottu on the meaning of toys and dolls: magical and fetish objects that, by symbolic inversion, become an infantile alter ego and then return, in art, to the magical dimension.

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Sat. 11th dec.Seventeenth edition of Giornata del Contemporaneo AMACI: talk Little girls' dreams. From fetish to doll, from doll to Pop-art. With the artist Gianluca Esposito, the anthropologist Caterina Giannottu and the curator Penelope Filacchione. 

Free entrance 

Mon. 13th dec. 

The magical Night of Santa Lucia: noght opening with theater performance. "La canzone di Carolina". text and images by Gianluca Esposito; performing by Michela Cesaretti sSalvi.