MATTEO PIZZOLANTE La linea che ci divide dal domani

FuturDome Milano October 27, 2022 - January 28, 2023

FuturDome is pleased to present “La linea che ci divide dal domani”, a solo show by Matteo Pizzolante, curated by Atto Belloli Ardessi. The project presents a new body of site-specific artworks developed in relation to the spatial peculiarities and the history of FuturDome’s exhibition spaces, as well as to the materials that redefine its building shell, activating a change of temporal intensity that entails a subtraction of the present. The exhibition investigates the instant from which the reconstruction of the narrative of an event originates, determining how a memory switches from its state of inert sensibility to its state of active sensibility. The title of the exhibition is conceived in reference to the imaginary line drawn on the earth’s surface that determines the change of date, at the 180th meridian. The traveler moving from Asia to America must count the same date twice, while the one going in the opposite direction must skip a day. A ripple/ paradox of time, a gap materialized in the 21 hours time zone separating the border between Russia and Alaska, in the middle of the Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait. Two islands visible to the naked eye just over three kilometers apart where it is possible, by crossing them, to retrace an instant of time and reshape our memory into a lucid vision of our own past or vice versa. In Pizzolante’s works, the past never stops reconfiguring itself and the image can appear possible only in a perpetual re-construction carried out by memory, if not by obsession. ▲