CHIARA TOMMASI
MAGDALA 0166 digital photography 1/3 2023
IL BOSCO IMMAGINARIO series of photographs 20x25
Images, like words in their primal essence, can irresistibly drift away from their original meanings, acquiring broader senses and extensions. Starting from the same equipment, they form different and never stable resonances. Following the veins they prescribe, these languages will have a chance to evolve and gradually charge themselves with poetic powers. We must gaze deep to find, in the dispersions and remnants of the images, a Madonna, a child, and perhaps flower petals or little stars patrolling them in their crossings and draperies. The signs of the images multiply, merge, and embrace in continuous apprenticeship to progressively complicate in the dimension of the imaginary. They do not give up on designating, in their narrative leaps and floating, impacting the theme of identity and alterity inits continuous evolutions, breaks, and pauses. Another indefinite possibility to transmit, without fear of forgetfulness, small truths that are often written elsewhere.
SIMONE MARINI
FIONDE wooden, elastic, leather. 2017
ANTROPOMETRIE DI PANE baking paper and oil pastels. 2017
Entrusting one's narratives to ancient wisdom traditions to pour and balance them in the contemporary without losing their origin, ensuring continuity and unity of meaning. The elements, bread and sling. The reliquary left by the bread on the paper, like the dusting of a fresco, and the interventions of color, decline random and ruleless forms, indefinite and unstable. It's a way to lead us to other possible worlds, to think of other modes of balanced ethical support. The duality of the sling in opposition, attack and defense, an instrument of the weaker ones, framed in a case, preserves and ensures other representative areas such as the continuous loss of memory in our society, and its Y shape finds an ideal crossroads between opposite initiatory paths. The two insurances for life, for one's existence, given by the spirit of wheat and self-protection, continuously need traces. Time, leavening, and warmth.
Adelmo Valentini, Narrative Psychology
