Matteo Maino, FASECONTROFASE

Basement

The translation of impasse indicates both a dead end and a difficult situation, a meaning with which the term is commonly used in Italian.
Matteo Maino plays with this ambivalence to designate on the one hand the physical place, the cramped and closed space of the stairwell, and on the other a situation of stasis, even creative stasis, of the artist. The only way out is to change the point of view, to turn the perspective upside down: here is the sense of an unexpected corner of the sky, because a staircase going down underground can also be a staircase going up.

Matteo Maino was born in Bergamo in 1990.