Le visioni chiamano ad una notte vuota (Visions call to an empty night)

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In her first solo exhibition, the young Sassarese artist Eleonora Desole presents the unprecedented site-specific installation Le visioni chiamano ad una notte vuota. In a muffled space that cancels the physical boundaries of the exhibition hall, the artist arranges fragments of nature, images, sounds and emotions: a dark place interrupted at times by blades of uncertain light, concealing a forest where water flows silently and a mute wind stirs trees, branches and leaves. These are traces of a black and white nature that renews the perpetual cycle of life and death. The exhibition space thus becomes a dreamlike, twilight space, impalpable and with uncertain boundaries, inhabited by visions that recall ancient pagan rites. Fantastic forms suspended in the void, ethereal, evanescent and unreachable, zoomorphic fetishes sway slowly, in a void pregnant with expectation crossed by the intermittent buzz of the many indistinct but familiar voices that inhabit the night, punctuating the inexorable flow of time. Eleonora Desole transports the spectator into an imaginary and primordial space where the apparently empty darkness is dense with possibilities not yet expressed or not yet grasped: an invitation to be mirrored in primordial nature in order to find within oneself the infinite traces of the universe.

Biography

Eleonora Desole (1999) lives and works in Sassari. After graduating from the Sassari Academy of Fine Arts, she specialised in painting. Her research stems from a dialogue built through raw materials from nature and the use of multimedia techniques and media, which gives rise to unusual scenarios, places of the imagination capable of creating other dimensions. He has participated in several group exhibitions, including ‘Fuori Tutto!’ in 2019 (Sassari, Spazio Chora) and ‘Habitat’ in 2023 (Sassari, Palazzo Ducale). Also in 2023, in Tortolì, he took part in the second edition of ‘Contemporanea Talk’, a project promoted by the Fondazione di Sardegna.

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