L'irrealtà della realtà

With the beginning of the pandemic and the first lock-down, I found myself, at a certain point, no longer sure I could comprehend reality and what was happening. I kept thinking about this fact until, talking to a person who has been studying Eastern philosophies and religions all his life, she made this observation to me: "Think about it, the word “mind” comes from lie (Italian word mente and verb mentire) , so a falsification or alteration, whether conscious or not, of reality. You can see it when you look at certain situations from the outside and you don't realize how the ones inside don't realize or can't perceive what they are experiencing, with lucidity." This discussion made me think for a long time and, observing the events that were happening to me, or were happening to other people, I realized that, it is already very difficult to fully grasp reality and above all, the mind, continually leads us to "misrepresent," even and with minimal nuances, what we experience.

The work is deliberately extreme: blank canvas itself depicts life; the figures bordered by the black stroke represent the events that happen in each person's life. The colored tapes are a representation of how our mind perceives events and how it never situates them completely adherent to objective reality (assuming an objective reality exists). Each tape, of different colors, symbolizes the emotions and feelings we experience as a result of these events. Every tape corresponds exactly to its outline, but never in the same direction (if a tape is horizontal, its outline is vertical and vice versa) to express the concept of lying to ourselves to the limit, even if for good reason or to protect us.

Basically, we live a life that will never fully comprehend the objectivity of what happens to us.