11.10.2023 – 11.03.2024 solo exhibit at Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli// Tempio di Iside

https://mann-napoli.it/raining-gods/

Exhibition curated by Ex-Voto Radical Public Culture and Rita Di Maria part of the project L’Egitto e Napoli tra Antico e Contemporaneo, National Archaeological Museum of Naples.

Through the works created specifically for this exhibition, Da Pozzo places the finds from the Temple of Isis (rooms 83 and 84) and the Farnese Collection (room 13) of the MANN in dialogue with the sculptural group Monument Corpo di Napoli, already the pivot of the Atlas of Bodies research that the artist has been conducting since 2019 (with the support of Ex-voto Association for Radical Public Culture).
Also known as the Statue of the Nile, the sculptural group is located in the heart of Spaccanapoli, in what was once the Regio Nilensis, i.e. the part of the city on the edge of the central core of Neapolis where a colony of Egyptians settled in Roman times.
Da Pozzo intervenes with a playful attitude, but one rooted in research, a doing compromised with the unpredictable and the chaos of everyday urban life, but attentive to the dimension of the invisible. The artist’s studies at the museum have caused new images (actions, visions, dreams) to emerge from the exhibits, creating small time loops.
Three site-specific installations originate from the Navigium Isidis fresco, the Statue of Isis and the Flora Farnese and, through plays of light, transparency and refraction, place the fragility of water resources at the centre of the discourse.
It’s raining gods (& Goddesses) frames the matrix of the Nile Monument in the context of the mystery cults dedicated to Isis and Osiris