Flavio Favelli

Pari & Dispari Gallery, Reggio Emilia
Through April 22

Flavio Favelli’s research ranges over many media: from photographs to objects, from performances to slate slabs or painted mirrors. The diversity of the exhibited works, however, conceals a unity of meaning that is foretold in part by the very title of the show, Cardioscritture. What is writing, if not a way of stopping time, of building an individual or social memory? A glass surface painted red, a written message letting a fragment of a female face show through: the mystery of communication crushed by subjectivity. Favelli sends his messages, made undecipherable by the writing, in order to challenge our viewing. Viewing that has become quicker and quicker, like channel surfing while watching TV, or glancing at shop windows while walking. Eternal prisoners of our own subjectivity, we do not know the truth of the world, only various degrees of ambiguity. Favelli’s is aesthetics of desire with almost erotic meaning, like the enjoyment of being in time.




Mirtha Paula Mazzocchi
Translation by Bruna Pegoraro Brylawski