Francesca Cornacchini was born in Rome on 22 March 1991. She graduated from the three-year Set Design programme and the two-year Sculpture programme at RUFA- Rome University of Fine Arts. Since 2018 she has been a member of the Spazio In Situ artists’ group. The artist’s work focuses on the study and analysis of technopessimism and its relationship with scientific, economic and political progress. She methodically investigates biological, philosophical and anthropological themes, using raw underground aesthetics. Her constant techno\scientific research becomes the driving force behind the media she uses, often derived from the virtual world, creating a dialogue not only with the world and history of art, but also a more intimate connection with the biological and sociological sphere of human beings. She is currently exploring the relationship between historical symbolism and its reinterpretation in a contemporary context.
L’inferno di Dante
Francesca’s thesis project is a stage adaptation of Dante’s Inferno, the allegorical world of the Supreme Poet, filled with symbolism, horrifying grotesque monsters, mysticism and archaic mysteries of a bygone age that so closely resembles these dark times of the new millennium. The challenge, therefore, was to adapt the murky setting of Dante’s Inferno, with its countless environments, into a stage design through symbolism and video projections, suggesting dreamlike and ancestral atmospheres. The thesis explores allegory and the journey of the human spirit through a shadowy realm until it reaches the discovery of absolute evil, Lucifer, tracing the development of his image over the centuries.
Thus we descend into human darkness, eliminating the superfluous, until reaching the essence of horror and alienation, thereby creating the pretext for the ascent back towards the light.
