Memory and Matter

Arte Fiera 45 | 2022 (May 13-15) - Monographic Fair Booth - Galleria d'Arte Niccoli - Memory and Matter - four-person show

Reversing the title - and the narrative - of the essay written in 1896 by the French philosopher Henri Bergson Materia e Memoria, Galleria d’Arte Niccoli presents the works of four artists through the keys to the interpretation provided by Bergson’s text over a century ago.

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Addressing the dualism between spirit and matter, Bergson asserts man’s reality as a system composed of images, the first of which is that of his own body: through this, man acts on the other images of the world, readjusting them through perception, to construct the reality that surrounds him. Perception is therefore expressed as an act of selection and retrieval of images from the chaotic reservoir of one’s own memories which, through the body - acts as a conductor - triggers the perception of the present. Artan (Shalsi), Alessandro Brighetti, CCH and Jessica Wilson construct the relationship between their own memory and the artistic material in different ways, which is thus marked and transformed on the basis of perceptions, sometimes similar and sometimes very different, of the reality that surrounds them.

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