Duat Of Light

the exhibition

For Fuorisalone 2024, Young Art Hunters inaugurates Duat of light, a group show of four young and emerging artists ready to question the theme 'matter-nature. 

artistS

Federico Catagnoli

Chiara Cattaneo

Elia Panori

Mauro Valsecchi

reportage

The paradoxical works generated by the skill of the artists Federico Catagnoli, Chiara Cattaneo, Elia Panori and Mauro Valsecchi, reach out to the viewer in a path accompanied by only questions that can be seen in the materials and concepts of the installations. We enter a cave where light is the doubt and darkness the certainty of not being able to affirm any answer. The boundary of our perception lies in the will to cross it and cross new and undiscovered immaterial mysteries.

O Osiris, bull of Amenti! Thoth, king of eternity. I am the great God of the divine Boat who fought for you. I am one of those gods, the Judges who work the justification of Osiris against his adversaries on the day when the Words are weighed. I am a blood relative of yours, Osiris.

Book of the Dead

The Duat is a cave referred to by the ancient Egyptians as “funerary,” it holds the greatest questions that ancient civilization posed along with the hope for an afterlife that was not an end but rather, a beginning. By considering the Duat as a place-non-place without a specific time, we can enrich ourselves with numerous questions about the purity of the matter that inhabits the cave, the same matter where irresolution is the goal of the path that allows us to understand the limits of humankind and recognize the importance of vital sources without abusing them.