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WHELLCOME PRELUDE

Alessandro Simonini, WHELLCOME PRELUDE, installation view, 2022
Alessandro Simonini, WHELLCOME PRELUDE, installation view, 2022

Location

Edicola Radetzky

Date

03.05 –21.05.2022

Photography

Courtesy of the artist and Edicola Radetzky

Text

I have reached the end, there where the unthinkable presents itself as an abyss. In front of this nothingness I can no longer move forward. I can only retreat, contemplating the road traveled, and each time I backtrack I compose before me a reality. I have known my complete loneliness, in the bottom of the bottom of the bottom. Between life and death, in a continuous crisis, I keep my consciousness lit. I no longer know who I am, oh infinite mystery, come to my aid. I am the density of all that tries in vain to be formal. Between two abysses I have waited and will continue to wait, I have eternity before my back. I go where I am, seeking the truth, invisible. WHELLCOME is an invitation to descend to the deepest matter, one's inner self, and in this shared catabasis the prelude to a dramatic irruption of the supernatural into the world. It is the eventuality of an encounter with the mythical Cerberus infernalis triceps, a three-headed dog guarding the "invisible" realm. A portal where this indistinct symbol lets interpretation move freely but at the same time keeps it at a distance, disorients it by becoming suggestion and a sign of the ineffable. What is known is approximately so; what is perceived is so to a particular and changing extent. As if matter was being formed from these vapors and an unprecedented spiritual and mental force gave shape to it, or even if a potentiality turned into imaginative force, acquiring form and figure.