• Sara Enrico | Tainted Lovers

November 3 to December 10, 2023
Binario 2 | OGR Torino

An exhibition by OGR Torino, produced with the support of Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT
Curated by Samuele Piazza

Free admission
Thursday and Friday, H 6 – 10 PM
Saturday and Sunday, H 10 AM - 8 PM

Tainted Lovers, a solo exhibition by the artist Sara Enrico (Biella, 1979), curated by Samuele Piazza, invites visitors to explore perceptual manipulation through various materials.

The exhibition, running until December 10, 2023, challenges the expectations of those strolling through OGR Torino's Binario 2 by introducing a captivating complexity that disrupts preconceived affinities and stimulates a range of emotional responses, including empathy and repulsion towards the Other.

Produced by OGR Torino with the support of Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT, the exhibition is conceived as a single large installation and features a series of new sculptures commissioned and produced for this occasion.

The term Tainted implies contamination, infection, and damage: the world depicted in Sara Enrico's works is a cosmos of relationships and frictions, where the boundary between figuration and abstraction speaks of evolving bodies and contamination between body design and object design.
According to the philosopher Spinoza, each body, whether human or non-human, is marked by a drive for self-preservation, referred to as conatus, which compels them to persist in their efforts to satisfy their inherent nature. This vital energy transforms the materials of the world into active entities: desiring bodies that, to ensure their vitality, seek alliances with other bodies, in a continuous interplay of affects, coexistence, and friction.

The love referred to in the exhibition's title is therefore far from romantic.
Instead, it can be interpreted as a physical force that shapes bodies and implies relationships: Sara Enrico's sculptures evolve, carrying with them the imprints of interactions and tensions between materials, while their interpenetrations are driven by desires or deficiencies.