Stone project, included in the Umanità?! program by Mesia Space, develops around the recognition of the impossibility of giving a univocal answer to questions about the nature of Time and Memory. This development occurs through some passages of a personal experience, marked by four main moments that I have defined as: work, pain, therapy and healing. The work is expressed as a concept totally full of its definitions and therefore left free to be read and thought about according to one's own experiences, knowledge and intellect. In particular, the term "stone" refers to the title of Charles Simic's poem which addresses the question of the organic and the inorganic interpenetrating each other; a possible reason for the concept of work. Pain, almost always welcomed with great disfavor and forbidden in classical culture, is proposed as a symptom of a new origin and as a possible principle. The therapy is offered in an aesthetic perspective and in a sensitive experience shared publicly and told immediately just as it happens. Healing is constituted in the conscious and organized reading of all the previous phases and without characteristics defined by a beginning and an end, rather it is a form of understanding, of attention towards each event; a care of oneself and of the self.
Stone, Benedetta Galli
MESIA SPACE - Largo Mesia, 3 - Rome | 7 - 28 October 2023 | 12.00 – 21.00
Opening Saturday 7 October 2023 at 7.00 pm
Video installation / from Saturday 7 to Thursday 12 October