Platamona: Grief on the beach for little Domenico
Artist Nicola Urru pays tribute to the child who died at the Monaldi Hospital in Naples.Per restare aggiornato entra nel nostro canale Whatsapp
The story of little Domenico has shocked Italy. Artist Nicola Urru chose to sculpt his story in the sand , which the sea of Platamona will wash away, leaving behind the memory of a child who received a "burnt" heart transplant, marking his end at just two and a half years old. The little boy died on February 21st at the Monaldi Hospital in Naples.
On the beach of Sorso, the pain of little Domenico's parents is palpable, the collapse of an entire universe built on faith in doctors. "Blindly entrusting oneself to medicine is an act of immense and desperate love," says the artist. "Finding oneself now faced with such a tragic outcome generates a sense of bewilderment that no words can fill. It is a 'naked' grief, devoid of defenses, deserving only of respectful silence." It is a crushing grief, for the loss of a child, for the hope killed in a few hours, for that trust so difficult to regain.
"We find ourselves gravitating within a system that often appears to be a cold machine," adds Nicola Urru, "rusted by structural shortcomings and the fatigue of those who work there, a mechanism that almost seems to have lost the profound meaning of care, transforming itself into a cold automatism."