Maria Rebecca Ballestra, in collaboration with Nina Bacun
Re-flections, 2018
20 prints on paper
each 21 x 29 cm
This stage of the project is going to take place in Venice, during the artist residency at the Emily Harvey Foundation. The final work will be realised in collaboration with Croatian artist Nina Bacun and will result in a psychological and geographical map of the lagoon city.
Agorè, via Rastello 49, Gorizia
10 febbraio – 3 marzo 2018
Thu, Fri, Sat, 4pm – 7pm
Fragment nr. 3 from “The Truth of Labyrinth”
Therefore, let us take a bow, draw it back and release our arrow. It will follow a beautifully curved flight path, will sparkle in the sun before narrowly missing the horizon: within an inch of our next question. Because, finally, what can one expect from art except a freeze frame, which inherently transcends us?
At this stage, it all becomes quite dizzying. An abyss. Before rebounding up towards the mountaintops: there,where God reveals himself to us and disappears to give us a glimpse of something beyond him. God: the focal point of divinity (in all its forms). Transcending God: a true gem, which both non-believers as well as the faithful who are permeated through and through with their faith cannot access. An uncharted, scandalous territory, bordering on madness. A hallucination. Vertigo. But also a Vision (cf. Second Fundamental), riddled with light.