Daniela Peracchi, MICRO-MACROCOSMO

Room 6
Invited by Adrian Paci

When I entered Casa Testori, I felt as if I were visiting many small intimate microcosms connected by very narrow doors. In my room I perceived this privacy as if I could project my image in all points.
What is family if not this. The collection of all the emotional projections of the members, enclosed in intimacy in a small macrocosm.
The same parental relationship creates many small microcosms of their own being.
We children are parents and unique individuals at the same time; we grow up believing that we will be different and we explore the world relying only on ourselves, but what are we if not a microcosm derived from the union of two macrocosms?
We all come from a mother and a father, we are all the result of two different genes.
So the question arises: why shouldn’t we children simply be a continuation of a fluid, the passing of the baton of something sensory that changes as a body passes through different languages of expression?
I work on my family for this very reason: I am a microcosm that looks into their world and I unhinge that glass bell built for an educational hierarchy by transforming myself into parent and child at the same time. I act on my father and mother because I want to break the glass of the bell in which I am reflected.

Daniela Peracchi was born in Alzano Lombardo (BG) in 1990. She lives and studies in Milan.