When I first saw these pigs among the clouds I thought of the “when pigs fly” phrase used to describe a situation that will never happen. And, coincidentally, that’s what Milan based artist Benedetta Ubaldini may have had in her mind when she hand-sculpted these forms from chicken wire, though she may not be familiar with that same phrase. The artist creates these installations to “give a sense of wonder and magic.”
Using transparent, overlapping figures like pigs, rabbit, and Little Red Riding Hood, Ubaldini builds ethereal installations that look like scenes from a fairy tale. About using chicken wire as her medium, she says, “The simplicity of this material contains the magical power of transparency that is capable of giving each piece the lightness of an apparition, a ghostlike quality, like a trace from a memory.”
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