Valentina Sciarra – Spelonca

Valentina Sciarra
Spelonca
2019
video on loop 4’56” , granite stones

video installation on Structura Gallery’s vitrine
every night from 22:00 to 02:00

part of Sofia Art Week 2019

video on loop 4’56” , granite stones

(…) This precarious freedom of the contemporary era, becomes an embodied way of perceiving reality, leaving the individual in a state of stasis, virtual limbo, anticipating a change, but rather creating a negative liminal space both in mental and physical spheres. The combination of the play and power of the past century with the current social, economic and geo-political reality, have created a shift in the mind of the citizens, doubtless, making the mark more visible of the split worlds – the privileged and the suffering. The face of this era, has displayed itself with a new face, that one of reoccurring and unwanted past, that is yet producing possible scenarios for society, A society trapped in totalitarian frames and under new age unspoken slavery (…)

From SAW 2019’s text