FIGURATIVE

Di ogni donna hai fatto una martire		Rito

The human figure was nowhere present in Siglinda's work, not even a suggestion of it, until 1991. When it did appear, not surprisingly, given her beginnings in traditional ceramic art, the reference to the vessel was unmistakable, as in the Di ogni donna... piece pictured here. Made for an exhibit sponsored by Amnesty International in the time of the recent Gulf War, these torso pieces, with that great dignity that sometimes flowers out of human vulnerability, were the embodiment of a specific but age-old suffering and protest. Ultimately, stylized and transformed, the human figure becomes the mask shown here called Rito, with its frightening ambiguity, the mask perhaps worn by the goddess who presides over the realm of laughter and dying.

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