Vincenzo Junior Marrazzo

Il Latte delle Vergini by Vincenzo Marrazzo is built around the tension between the desire for purity and its inevitable contamination, innocence captured only at the moment it is violated. Drawing from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò and Teorema, where the erotic becomes an unwanted political act, and from Georges Bataille’s Histoire de l’Oeil, in which passion ultimately dissolves its subject, the collection exists in a space of voyeuristic familiarity and quiet destruction. Silhouettes are deliberately vintage and lived-in, as though pulled from a wardrobe after decades untouched. Materials reference the silks and cottons of old nightgowns, robes, and lingerie, not as new, but aged, stained, hardened, and fragile. From the garments to the accessories, everything seems to invite handling and consumption. Il Latte delle Vergini does not preserve, it surrenders, drawing the viewer into a cycle of desire they become complicit in.