Another Chance, 2025

The entire investigation revolves around the idea that the visible perimeter of space contains within itself a plurality of possible forms, suspended between what has been, what is glimpsed, and what has not yet occurred. In the choice not to impose a singular vision, the room opens up, and the outside is nothing more than what remains within it as potential. It is in the anticipation of a perceptual reboot of the room that Another Chance intervenes—the work that gives the exhibition its title.

A mechanical torch, following a modular trajectory, illuminates portions of the frescoed ceiling, blackened by the soot that time has deposited there, revealing with each pass fragments that not only punctuate the space of the vault but suspend its solidity in partial apparitions. The image never fully reveals itself: it emerges and immediately withdraws, allowing the slow and constant dilation of time to once again shape the experience of seeing—a vision that seems to slip away precisely in the moment it is sought, and that reappears in the memory of what has just been.

“It is past! What does that mean? / It is as if it had never been, / And yet it circles round, as if it were.”

These Faustian lines seem to contain the ambiguity that the work inhabits: what vanishes does not cease to be, in the awareness that disappearance does not signal an end, but an intermittent condition whose appearance changes while remaining as a trace. In this luminous and continuous circularity, what seemed to have disappeared returns—altered—as if it, too, were asking to be seen once more, but from another angle, perhaps with another chance.