Title: The Ballad of Human Mutations

Description: For the first time, artist Aliteia introduces art to a project centred around Charcot-Marie-Tooth, the most common hereditary neuropathy, yet simultaneously a rare and not well-known disease, that the artist considers a common trait in her family. Art becomes a means of knowledge and
transformation, although above all of beauty understood as a perfect and constant balance between imperfections.
The Ballad of Human Mutations wants to be a manifesto for non-conforming bodies designed to assimilate new aesthetic values in contemporary society. The aim of the project is in fact to create a revolutionary myth of the different and fragile starting from the body: to be gifted new eyes to incorporate everything that goes beyond our own personal standards and live it as a resource, seizing the authentic beauty of the human being. Therefore, the purpose is to rewrite the codes of non-perfection as novel social values and criteria of judgement.
Disease represented: Charcot-Marie-Tooth
Photographer: Elena Andreato
Country: Italy
Year: 2023