Sofia Mitsola: Aquamarina – Crocodilian tears

The solo exhibition explores a myth written by the artist, following the adventures of warrior protagonists, sisters Aqua and Marina, in the semiaquatic world they inhabit.

Both menacing and seductive, protagonists are depicted naked and much larger than human scale with intensely bright and gem-like colours painted in translucent and opaque layers.

The exhibition includes Mitsola’s recent paintings and charcoal works and a theatrical environment for the final part of the story, manifested through a triptych painting showing the capture of the crocodile.

Mitsola’s myth can be read as a contemporary response to Friedrich Nietzsche’s aphorism: “Anyone who fights with monsters should make sure that he does not in the process become a monster himself.”