The theme chosen for this IX edition by Title FLASHBACK “all art is contemporary” THE FREE ZONE / THE FREE ZONE, a term that recalls a marginal but prejudice-free area where art unfolds in all its strength, and is deeply linked to this historical moment and to the choice of the new location.
The image chosen to accompany this year's theme is a "discarded" photograph part of the recovery and collection project entitled "Miracles" byartist Enrico Bertelli who lives and works in Paris.
Over the years, the artist has recovered thousands of (analogue) photos from photography shops, reusing them in many of his exhibitions. Here Bertelli presents us with a photo that portrays a woman against the light inside a house as she observes the world outside, beyond the domestic walls. The shot can be defined as a “waste” that the artist wanted to recover and bring back to life.
"My job - says Bertelli – explores the possibilities of how error and deviation can change our perception of reality. I worked as an illustrator for newspapers and in a cartoon studio where I drew the backgrounds in which the various characters moved. While I was doing it, I discarded a lot of things: color proofs, bad drawings, etc. Instead of throwing these scraps away, I kept them aside and later used them to compose abstract collages. Thus I realized that these small pieces convinced me much more than the official work I was doing. In a sense, I identified with those pieces of paper. An awareness has arisen and, after many years, I can say that my creative path is the story of an unresolved relationship (probably it will never be resolved) between me and my mistakes. Looking at one of my works, I hope you perceive the attempt to give value to all those things, those aspects, those neglected, unseen, marginal detailsi ".
The choice of theme for this XNUMXth edition therefore stems from a question that the directors of Flashback asked themselves: how to open up a real path towards the Other in search of a collective dimension? Ginevra Pucci refers to the contemporary French philosopher François Jullien.
