Plaster casts of more than 1000 fingers (right hand’s index), 2021.

A site-specific environment, conceived for ITALIAN TWIST a group exhibition whereby Fondazione Imago Mundi reopens the Gallerie delle Prigioni.
The installation inspired by the “iron maiden” (of Nuremberg), the infamous torture device that is erroneously dated back to the Middle Ages, is a taxonomy of over 1200 plaster casts of an index finger. The pointing finger is the most archetypal figure of judgement, here taken to extremes and multiplied.
Inside WHITE TORTURE, everyone is at the centre of judgement and those who are judging will be judged in turn. Inspired by the jail cells, the message of this work is amplified and empowered by the location, both in a literal meaning as with a legal conviction, and in a psychological sense: the “white room” is a sort of psychological torture consisting of sensorial deprivation and isolation.