Jan Fabre's sculptures inspired by the relationship between man and the deep sea are on display in Capri

From July 7 to Sept. 30, 2022, the Certosa di San Giacomo in Capri will host the exhibition Homo aquaticus and his planet, an unprecedented installation by Jan Fabre promoted by the Campania Regional Museums Directorate and created by Studio Trisorio, under the patronage of the City of Capri. Curated by Melania Rossi, the exhibition project consists of sixteen sculptures in Carrara marble and black marble from Belgium that Fabre has been working on for the past four years. The works, which will be installed in the church of the 14th-century complex, are inspired by the relationship between man and the marine abyss, bywater as a vital and original element.

Two figures in diving suits allude to the human being’s desire for knowledge, the propensity to explore unknown worlds. In a kind of immersion in his imagination, Jan Fabre brings out hybrid beings with fish-like bodies and human faces lying on brains. The protagonist of this installation is precisely the brain, which the two divers seem to have just brought up from the depths of the sea. For more than two decades Fabre has been bringing his research on the human brain into his artistic universe, including drawings, sculptures and film-performances, confronting scientists who are experts in biology and neuroscience.

Homo aquaticus echoes the vision of French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, who envisioned a voluntary evolution of humans toward life underwater, partly by natural adaptation and partly by the intervention of technology. Inspired by studies on the"human fish," Jan Fabre intends to imagine the missing link in man’s evolution from the sea to life on land, conceiving new metamorphoses from man to fish and vice versa.

Hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (last admission at 5:30 p.m.)

Image: Jan Fabre, Brain with Human fish II (2022)

Jan Fabre's sculptures inspired by the relationship between man and the deep sea are on display in Capri

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