This exhibition presents a selection of recent works and includes works on paper, installations, and objects.
As the title of the exhibition suggests, there is in the ensemble presented a “restorative” spirit, a kind of optimistic poetics.
What are those other commitments indicated by the title? Finding the path, fixing what is broken, beautifying the everyday, having the patience to hold the thread long enough to understand the meaning of standing on the sphere; drawing once again the circle, the triangle, the infinity, to somehow attempt to understand what we call archetype. Also, in this exhibition, one will be able to converse with “them,” the characters who were once in photos, videos, drawings, now present in real space, aligned on the shelf, representing themselves.
There is a hopeful humor behind the theme of corrections, in that insistence on finding the formula so that the thing is “right” and in the attempt to repair the piano, the same one that was once the victim of the man with the axe. This new situation, arising from an optimistic intention, could perhaps be included in that series begun many years ago, the one of the “forced labors.”
There are characters who spill semi-magical substances: blue sands, powders that shimmer, a reconstruction of a Chinese landscape, a shelf with broken plates that are also a garden (with gardener and all), and a little toy piano that is waiting for us to approach it.
