Modica, Ilde Barone inaugurates the exhibition "Santi - icons for a profane time"

On Saturday, March 21, at 7 PM, at Corso Umberto 121 in Modica, the exhibition “Santi – icons for a profane time”, a solo show by Ilde Barone, will be inaugurated.

The exhibition project proposes a reflection on the relationship between the sacred dimension, image, and contemporaneity.

The exhibition presents works that engage with the iconographic imagery of religious tradition: the artist reinterprets symbols and forms related to the figure of the saint, translating them into essential and intensely evocative representations.

Halos, ornaments, and references to popular devotion transform into visual signs capable of suggesting a presence and, at the same time, opening a space for inquiry.

The title, “icons for a profane time”, alludes to this tension: the icon, historically connected to worship, is rethought as a poetic and visual device through which to question the meaning of the sacred in today's world.

The works thus find themselves in a territory suspended between iconographic memory and contemporary sensibility, where the reference to tradition becomes the starting point of an investigation that considers spirituality as a human, shared, and universal experience.

The exhibition is accompanied by a critical text by art historian and critic Maria Teresa Zagarone.