{"id":16643,"date":"2025-06-06T10:18:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galleriaborghese.beniculturali.it\/en\/?p=16643"},"modified":"2025-06-09T13:29:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T13:29:25","slug":"bloody-rug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galleriaborghese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/bloody-rug\/","title":{"rendered":"BLOODY RUG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bloody Rug<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> transforms a domestic textile into a possible silent record of violence. The deep red carpet, marked and stained, absorbs the trace of conflict without illustrating it. Mutu\u2019s gestures are circular stains impressed onto the surface\u2014acts of marking rooted in physicality rather than pictorial representation. This approach recalls her early performances, where the body, material, and the trace itself became tools of storytelling. The tension between the carpet\u2019s formal geometry and its internal disarray becomes a metaphor for control and rupture. The work asserts presence in a space where textiles are today peripheral. Installed beneath Domenichino\u2019s The hunting of Diana, it confronts a tradition of gendered spectacle. In the painting, the women are watched by hidden men\u2014an allegory of intrusion. Here, the scene is gone. The image is withheld. Violence is no longer visual\u2014it is structural, embedded, and enduring, held within the surface. As in the painting, the carpet holds tension rather than releases it, transforming silence into a presence that presses against the room.\u00a0 At once political and intimate, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bloody Rug<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> evokes broader forms of violence, like wars, wounds, and disappearances, carried not in grand gestures, but in what quietly persists.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloody Rug transforms a domestic textile into a possible silent record of violence. The deep red carpet, marked and stained, absorbs the trace of conflict without illustrating it. Mutu\u2019s gestures are circular stains impressed onto the surface\u2014acts of marking rooted in physicality rather than pictorial representation. 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