Gaia Carboni, INCIDENZE

Room 20
Invited by Stefano Arienti

The project conceived for this room expresses a reflection on two different elements, united, however, under the same sign; one is linked to the technique of engraving, in its various procedural aspects, the other refers to the role of light in engraving itself and therefore to its perception through the weighting of different space-time dimensions. The processuality of engraving is apparently interrupted in Phos III. Although it remains in the form of a matrix, it leaves room for light, which, settling in the engraved marks, as if it were ink, brings out the represented landscape, which in turn, among the corrosions and inflorescences that time has left on the aluminium, undergoes. This is repeated in the site-specific work Abete where the engraved sign is always perceived through it. This work catapults the fir tree in the garden of Casa Testori into the room, and this is the main reason why I chose this room: the tree in question is exactly centred in the window, which is therefore perceived as the perfect framing of an element that is very similar in its architectural structure to the forms that I represent. The virtuality of this subject that is abstracted from its context introduces the metaphysical dimension of the three drawings Dark I, II and III, in which light is no longer physical but entirely mental and is expressed through the use of the black pen and therefore of ink, which stands out on the metal surface of the cards that imitate the engraving plate.

Gaia Carboni was born in Turin in 1980. She lives and works in Fidenza.