Jem Perucchini
AB-ERRANTI
La rilettura delle edicole votive innesca un’ibridazione tra il mito, esplorazione di una conoscibilità mobile e condivisa, e la storia di battaglia terme, caratterizzata da una continua trasformazione e reinvenzione. Ciascun intervento entra in dialogo con l’ambiente circostante attraverso la ripresa di topoi sopravvissuti sino a oggi.
Jem Perucchini, AB-ERRANTI, 2021, Battaglia Terme (PD), Veneto. Ph. Camilla Glorioso
Jem Perucchini (Tekeze, Ethiopia, 1995) has always studied cultural anthropology and he questions the relationship between images, monuments and objects that have become symbolic for society over time and fetishes placed in relation to the single individual. Recently graduated in Painting from the Fine Art Academy in Brera and in 2018 he won the Equita Private Banking Award for Brera.
Battaglia Terme is a village in the Veneto of 3,872 residents, part of the province of Padua, which is 20km away. A river village of the lower Padua area, founded in 1200, everything here is tied to water: it was home to a mill, a paper mill, the sawmill and a mallet workshop. The Museum of River Navigation (Museo della Navigazione Fluviale) holds over 4,000 artifacts and the natural thermal cave of Colle di S. Elena was already around and known during the Longobard era. The village is home to important villas, such as the Castello del Catajo, dating from the 16th century, and the Villa Emo-Selvatico, from the 17th century.