see Periodonero on the Italian website

a white sheet of paper. this is the start of my thoughts on ‘black’. a simple body, rectangular, flat, and bright - a space to be attacked with black forms. exactly like the beginnin g of the text you are reading. a page. white. the state of things at their very beginning, before all events, before vision, before all words. this is the new, unexplored surface i have designed for cosmesi [cosmetics], a wall of light, a back-projection screen, a space that is purely conceptual. this time the usual container of our works is flattened out, losing all depth, turning into this white sheet, which bears the marks of ‘black’ events and movements. the body is no longer reduced to working within its physical frame, but unfolds in a series of stylized representations half-way between video gaming and cartoon. as if it were a rain cloud passing by, or a sheet of music with low notes being leafed through, or a hen crossing a busy street, periodo nero [black period] flows under our eyes, attracting all sorts of misfortunes and failures. a succession of negative events, not caused by carelessness, nor by criminal offenses of any kind, shows up on the screen - narrating a series of mishaps, big and small, through a sequence of toggling graphic captions. negativity, both in abstract and literal terms, follows the reflections as they become completely discredited, muted, disfavored. in a space and time visualized with the help of a monitor screen, a time not too distant from our age, periodo nero is cast as a massacre-show where everything that can go wrong, will go wrong, because every single element is black, i. e. negative. so enjoy the show ................................................................................................................


we became aware of periodonero before it hit the papers. we felt the last few shared interests crumble away in favour of a convenient accommodation with the disagreeable. we imagined black shadows that form an invented world which we inhabit; that draw a greyscale-free cartoon where everything goes wrong, where we think we’re the leading players but we’re only part of the crowd, where what we do is desperately futile in a world that goes its own way. we thought the rectangular, white-lit screen was just an abstract, rationalist architecture especially made to contain our black shadows created to take away the light, to be the periodonero. nothing catastrophic. nothing really sad. periodonero is waiting for you outside.

Cosmesi
Eva Geatti and Nicola Toffolini
www.cosmesicosmesicosmesi.org


see the Drodesera FIES website
periodonero in centralefies.it


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