Deer soul by Simone Benedetto
With Deer Soul, Simone Benedetto continues his exploration of the symbolic figure of the child as a threshold of transformation. Human identity opens to a more archaic, instinctive and natural dimension. The sculpture depicts a standing child marked by the presence of antlers that alter its form. This is not a narrative element, but the manifestation of an inner process linked to connection with nature and the transformation of being.
The artist: Simone Benedetto
Simone Benedetto was born in Turin in 1985 and graduated with honors in Sculpture and Plastic Arts from the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti. His research focuses on the figure of the child as a symbolic device of psychological transformation. The child is never represented as a fixed identity, but as an evolving organism, suspended between human and animal states. Through extremely precise modelling, the artist gives visible form to the inner process of change that accompanies growth. Each work becomes a hybrid sculptural image in which animal elements emerge from the child’s body itself. He has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad and lives and works in Turin.
Description of “Deer soul”
In Deer Soul, the child’s figure appears as a body in transformation, suspended between human identity and animal dimension. The antlers become a symbol of a primordial inner force, emerging as a sign of connection with nature. They are not an external element, but a manifestation of the evolutionary process that inhabits the figure itself.
Conclusion
Within the group exhibition WILD SOULS, Deer Soul joins the dialogue on childhood as an origin space of transformation and connection with the natural world. The sculpture becomes an image of passage, where human and animal coexist as states of the same evolving identity. The work is on view at Galleria PUNTO SULL’ARTE until June 13, 2026.