Chiara Enzo

The Venetian artist Chiara Enzo’s meticulously detailed, small-scale paintings capture phenomena of the observed world in which fragmented bodies – exposed in both haunting and unvarnished detail – form a psychologically charged symbol of the limitations of their own corporeality. Enlarged and cropped within the frame, patches of bumped, nicked, and freckled skin, fuzzy napes of necks, taut ribcages, and soft bellies engraved with the impressions of tight clothing are made strange and unrecognizable. Madeline Weisburg