Inspired by Words
Posted on October 04 2021
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Author Silvia Colombo
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Inspired by Words │ 23 September - 20 October 2021
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Words hide, behind and inside them, one, ten - well, probably endless references. They not only have a significant - which is their graphic or phonic guise - but also a meaning - which is their content. They can be written, whispered, shouted but even not told, implied, thought and suggested in a more subtle way.
The group exhibition “Inspired by words”, arranged at the Spazio Millepiani in Rome, revolves exactly around those topics, guiding the visitors through a path made of implicit as well as explicit terms. All the photographic/digital pictures and the video exhibited tell us something about traditions, stories, countries and contexts that we, observers, have the privilege to discover, even if only for a short while.
The group exhibition “Inspired by words”, arranged at the Spazio Millepiani in Rome, revolves exactly around those topics, guiding the visitors through a path made of implicit as well as explicit terms. All the photographic/digital pictures and the video exhibited tell us something about traditions, stories, countries and contexts that we, observers, have the privilege to discover, even if only for a short while.
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Words, sometimes, hit us hard, including when they are invisible. Just like a punch in our stomach, like news we would never want to get. They are unseen, unreadable and yet annoyingly looming over us, like ghosts, and reminding us of their presence through tragic pictures that we immediately recognise.
Some other times, words are able to relieve our souls, unburdening them with the help of poetic verses we have always wanted to write and thanks to books that, in this case, have been read and visually reinterpreted.
Words, sometimes, hit us hard, including when they are invisible. Just like a punch in our stomach, like news we would never want to get. They are unseen, unreadable and yet annoyingly looming over us, like ghosts, and reminding us of their presence through tragic pictures that we immediately recognise.
Some other times, words are able to relieve our souls, unburdening them with the help of poetic verses we have always wanted to write and thanks to books that, in this case, have been read and visually reinterpreted.
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Ryan Bakerink, Kevin, 2019
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All together, one after the other, in free sequence, words have always created personal just as much as collective stories, that can be equally realistic or imaginary. They tell us something about the moment we are living in, but also about the people we are surrounded by, mirroring who we are (or would like to become) in a precise fragment of our lives. And it is only by deeply reading this subtext that we are then capable of seeing through ourselves. More or less less consciously, more or less fiercely.
Those are the dynamics some of the pieces within the exhibition are based on - works that represent, for example, a dialogue between our past and present self, drawing a soft and continuous timeline.
Those are the dynamics some of the pieces within the exhibition are based on - works that represent, for example, a dialogue between our past and present self, drawing a soft and continuous timeline.
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While somewhere else, instead, words are silenced, just imagined, or integrated into bigger pictures and compositions. In this way, they suddenly become details of a pop era; they are turned into reflections of an urban consumer culture that, in turn, remind us of deeper implications dealing with our times and habits.
One way or another, we are all inspired and - from another perspective - influenced by words, whether they come from a poet, an author, a colleague, a friend or from a stranger’s significant glance. All this contributes to generating opinions, interests and thoughts, but also texts and subtexts that are based on other words - causing a never ending circle.
While somewhere else, instead, words are silenced, just imagined, or integrated into bigger pictures and compositions. In this way, they suddenly become details of a pop era; they are turned into reflections of an urban consumer culture that, in turn, remind us of deeper implications dealing with our times and habits.
One way or another, we are all inspired and - from another perspective - influenced by words, whether they come from a poet, an author, a colleague, a friend or from a stranger’s significant glance. All this contributes to generating opinions, interests and thoughts, but also texts and subtexts that are based on other words - causing a never ending circle.
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Jaeik Kim, City Tinnitus, 2021
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Kristina Shakht, Maybe I must Hold my own Hand, 2021
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Melany Rovai, Legatura, 2019
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Gulsen Goksel, Sour Cherries, Portrait of my Mother, 2020
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Elise Wojtowicz, 3.29 Miles, 44m 55s, 2020
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INSPIRED BY WORDS
23 September - 20 October 2021
Millepiani - Via N. Odero,13, Rome - IT
linfo@millepiani.eu
+39 06.888.17.620
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