Memento Mori

The Italians love a good memento mori. This one is by Rebecca Horn (full disclosure, not Italian) at the Madre, the modern art museum in Naples. It recalls the Capucin Crypt in Rome, a crazy installation of hundreds of human bones, monk burials, arranged in the most obsessive decorative patterns. The entrance panel introduced visitors with: "you are what we were, we are what you will be."