PROJECT BY ALESSANDRA CANTERI

Starfish have five arms and run very fast. One day I found them clinging to the rocks, so many, never seen so many. I returned, but they were already gone. I embarked on a journey that was actually an exercise in adaptation, in which my time and space merged with what I had around me, and at the same time an exercise in transfiguration, in which to create imaginary spaces and-perhaps-convince even others that they exist. Starfish have five arms and run very fast is a personal reflection on time, on becoming aware of the impossibility of being able to hold it back, to control it. The project stems from my perception of being perpetually out of time: a “failure” is formally translated into strategies of dilation and contraction of visual memory, through repetition and seriality, and where micro and macrocosm become opportunities for discovery, expansion, encounter, resonance.