Cognitive Dissonance

Minervini's work examines notions of utopia through constructed environments, still-life, and landscape. Arrangements of stenciled classical Roman sculptures, cacti, succulents, Etruscan urns, & Egyptian figurines, are all placed on shelves inside tiled vitrines. It is a proposition that both honors and disrupts traditions of still-life and landscape painting. Disconnected from any cultural significance, it is unclear whether these items are relics of the past, objects of the present, or possibilities of the future. Reminiscent of a cabinet of curiosity, this constructed world is as familiar as it is foreign.