‘The distant gaze catapults us into a complete estrangement so that the most mundane things, the most usual habits, become new and surprising objects to study.’

(Gianni Celati in ‘Finzioni occidentali’)

 
I entered the essence of my work, delving into it, to then reach the point of making a lyophilised, concentrated version. The dilated time that unravels along the entire duration of existence is contracted in a tight and compressed form.
In this paragraph there is a focus on shrinking the space that I constructed to condense the entire meaning of my work: the ‘Gestureplace’, where I practise.
The desire to shrink this place (which is simultaneously concrete and metaphorical) to the extent that it becomes an object to place in front of the gaze and not a place that contains me, originated from the need to extricate myself in order to view it from the outside, from a distance, in order to understand it and see it with my mind.
It is as though it had become a symbolic representation of the space, of the meta-place, of the place of thought that I can relate to more with my mind than my body. It is as though I had somehow entered inside this place physically and then left it transformed to access another more abstract and visionary dimension.

(Written in 2021)