Rachel Feinstein’s works exhibited in three different museums in Florence

Since Rachel Feinstein works her art without regard for the less pleasant parts of existence and the crudest manifestations of the body, I have no qualms and even before we are served a glass of water, very necessary on the only day of Florentine heat of a meteorologically unfortunate month of June, I ask her what it means for her to exhibit simultaneously in the three most evocative museums of the city, the Bardini, the Marino Marini, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, a few weeks after a group of parents from Florida where grew up called Michelangelo’s David pornography. For the very few who didn’t remember it or hadn’t read anything, the episode provoked strong international protestsan invitation from Mayor Dario Nardella to the fired teacher to admire the statue live and in all Italians the irrepressible conviction that Americans are really a very young nation. Rachel Feinstein says it’s crazy, and that’s to be expected; however, he underpins the observation with a long reasoning on the role of social media in the process of dissociation between life and death, between the body in its vile, i.e. imperfect, reality and that of the unreal images filtered by Instagram and TikTok, for which we comfortable and we go on discussing “fake icons” for a good half hour, she actually even a little forced to sit down due to a skiing accident from which she hasn’t recovered yet.