Sotto cristalli troppo morbid (‘Under the too-soft crystals’) is the result of the individual and collaborative creative processes of Luisa Badino and Giulia M. Belli.
The artists’ visual production is nourished by stories, fairy tales, myths, and legends, where reading and writing serve as the starting and ending points for their exploration. Words and images mutually feed and enrich the correspondence the artists have woven for months: annotated phrases become potential forms, impressions of moments lived or imagined that, through exchange, transform into tangible matter.
The project at Terzo Spazio was inspired by a historical object, the Mondo Nuovo, or pantoscopic, depicted in 1791 by Giandomenico Tiepolo in the work Il Mondo Novo.
In this portrayal, Venetian society turns away and gazes through a slit at a diorama depicting the time to come. The room’s boundaries are redefined by an iridescent drape, dense with shadows interrupted by blurred and intermittent lights, much like those that appear on the eyelids in the initial darkness when eyes are closed. Beyond this dreamlike threshold, it is possible to peek and get lost in a narrative of shadows and fantasies presented as archetypes, engrams, and mnemonic traces that have not yet been clarified, opening up to a multifaceted reading of the history immersed within.
The work thus positions itself as a bridge between the conscious and unconscious, the present and elsewhere, and an intimate experience and a collective happening.