Humanature is the title introducing the second edition of the Fluid Matter project, an exhibition involving thirteen artists, all united by their interest in glass as a creative filter through which to explore the challenges and tensions of the contemporary human condition in the complex fabric of the reality we inhabit.

The exhibition focuses on the relationship between man and nature, between physical and digital reality, between society and the environment, using glass as a symbolic medium capable of reflecting and distorting our perceptions.

The exhibition highlights two perspectives: on the one hand, the interest of some artists in involving nature, its elements and processes in the production of the work itself. On the other hand, a more critical and reflective view emerges on human fragility and its ability to survive in a world in crisis.

Glass, the medium of choice for interpreting these themes, reveals itself to be a material with surprising possibilities: it is versatile, metamorphic and complex, and the works on display highlight some of its many potentialities, both in terms of its physical characteristics (hardness, fragility, varying degrees of transparency and purity, and its ability to retain a memory of its original fluidity even once solidified) and technological (hot or cold working, chemical-physical or mechanical processes) and symbolic (the plate, the lens and seeing through, the archetype of the container, the reference to primordial elements: water, fire...).

In any case, for all the artists involved, the work becomes a means of leaving a trace, not only material, in the world. It is the desire to make an impression, even if imperceptible, on the real and mental landscape of the observer, stimulating questions, challenging certainties and opening up new dimensions of experience.