Post by SIMONA SCIFO

VOID Photographic installation by Attilio Solzi - How can one not think of a universal movement, of a surface becoming wind, bubble, void. Attilio Solzi works with the body, with physicality, and with the carnal force of matter. In this latest series, however, he seems to evoke the void, a suspended dimension in which human beings and nature enter into resonance. A thin sheet of plastic, a humble, artificial material more commonly associated with construction sites, is transformed into a medium, an instrument of metamorphosis. Ripples, folds, waves, like the evanescent rhythm of the air, wrap around the figures and dissolve their outlines. The subjects seem to emerge and recede simultaneously, animated by the same vibration that moves summer fields in the breeze or stirs the leaves of a forest at dusk. The plastic sheds its original function and becomes membrane, atmosphere, a shared skin between the body and the world. The veil is an ancestral symbol lost in the mists of time. It recalls the veils woven by maidens to cover sacred statues in the rituals of ancient Greece, only to be removed at the most mysterious moments of the ceremony. To veil and to unveil belong to the same gesture. It is the movement of drapery described by Aby Warburg in his Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, the restless life of forms travelling across centuries like an unsettled memory. A ritual of motion, concealment, and revelation. Aletheia. Simone Weil’s words from the Cahiers come to mind: “Necessity is the veil of God.” The veil is not merely what obscures vision; it is also the condition through which revelation becomes possible.