What We Look for Beyond Seeing 2025
Solo show in Rome, Italy, RUFA Space, Via Degli Ausoni 7, on the occasion of the Contemporary Art Foundations Committee‘s tenth anniversary celebrations with collaboration of RUFA, Pastificio Cerere Foundation, Memmo Foundation, and NOMAS Foundation.
The installation unfolds as a series of portals through which the hidden possibility of being and not being in the exhibition space at the same time is explored. The visitor is invited to navigate between presence and absence, crossing the boundaries of a perception that is constantly challenged by materials and forms. Within these structures, which extend like seed pods, questions arise about the limits and possibilities of sensory perception. The arrangement of the elements creates an environment, in turn alien—a birth fertilized by gigantic demiurgic visitors. They challenge the distinction between the real and the imagined. The traversable space is thus transformed into a place where deception and aspirations find expression. Art itself reveals itself as a deviation from reality. In this deviation lie possible keys to investigate and understand the world. This deviation is not an escape, as it may seem, but rather the proper tool to explore certain possibilities that exist beyond the limits of the tangible. The work positions itself as a means to relate the existing parts with what can still be investigated, shifting the boundary between what we know and what can be imagined.
Each seed holds a world—less origin than passage, a threshold that opens inward toward unfolding relations. Within its small enclosure, entire ecologies are folded, waiting, already in motion. Boundaries between beings, objects, and plants soften and dissolve, becoming porous, indistinct, as if categories were only temporary arrangements of perception. What is alive and what is made no longer hold separate ground, but drift into shared states of becoming. Material and conceptual differences within natural systems unravel and are gathered again—broken apart, carried across forms, reformed into shifting, interwoven ecologies where separation gives way to continuity, and distinction becomes a form of relation rather than division.
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What We Look for Beyond Seeing
2023
curated by Fabrizio Pizzuto
RUFA Space, Rome, Via Degli Ausoni 7
With the support of Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, RUFA (Rome University of Fine Arts), Nomas Foundation and Fondazione Memmo
