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‘Fear is Ego’ / ‘Pandora’ has been performed with multiple mediums on a wood panel and is inspired by a philosophical statement and part of the ancient classical Greek myth of Pandora.

‘The only real fear that can be objectively recognized as true, is to be scared of being afraid of something.’

Pandora brought with her a vase given by Zeus, who however had ordered her to always leave it closed.

However, driven by curiosity, Pandora disobeyed: she opened the box and all the evils came out of it, furiously attacking human world: old age, jealousy, illness, pain, madness and vice, struck humanity.

At the bottom of the vase only hope remained, which did not have time to leave because the vase was closed again.

Before this moment humanity had lived free from evils, hardships or worries of any kind, and men were, like the gods, immortal.

After the opening of the jar, the world became a desolate, dark and inhospitable place.

Fear is Ego is in fact a proposition that wants to identify how the egoic character of the male dimension is not able to determine the cause of certain entities present in the natural world, giving them the characteristic and nuances present in this ancient myth that sees the woman as the initiatory figure of all evil.

Scholar Eva Cantarella has repeatedly defined the myth of Pandora as a disaster for the condition of women, the origin of gender difference, a narrative that explains how in the Greek world women were little considered by the prevailing maschilist culture.