Cecilia Danesi's installation is presented as an actual project room: a working space traversed by questions, insights and open possibilities. Not a finished work but a process in progress, a visible laboratory in which an intermediate phase of research is shown. A student of Scenography at the Ligustica Academy of Fine Arts in Genoa, Danesi developed this work during her Timescape residency, in which the central theme is the impossibility of grasping time in its totality and linearity. This reflection takes shape in an installation of unstable and material geometries, in which the experience of time manifests itself as a continuous metamorphosis: a porous, subjective, never-resolved time. The echo of Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus silently accompanies the project: Cecilia's study is an attempt to "be in charge," to recognize that every image, every structure, every word can oscillate between light and shadow, between finite and unfinished, between the desire for permanence and need for transformation. At the centre is the figure of Orpheus, the singer capable of crossing the underworld and being reborn, a symbol of transformation, change, and acceptance of the oscillation between life and death, between the visible and the invisible. Rilkean poetics is evident in the very attitude of the artist, who does not seek to enclose the work in a definitive form but opens up openings and invites pause in the threshold between stability and fragility. As Rilke writes, "Be in change, like the cloud you recognize." It is not easy to relate to great poets, especially when the work of a young artist resonates with words as powerful and intimate as Rilke's. Yet it is precisely in the encounter between study, insight and fragility that Cecilia Danesi has found the key to traverse this residency. Her research grappled with the impossibility of stopping or ultimately defining what is transformed: forms, thoughts, and images.  

Frames, painted plastics, scattered words, sketches, working materials and scenic tools inhabit the space as clues to a still open crossing. Far from the idea of a conclusive exhibition, what is offered is a landscape of work: a set of trials and fragments, where thought takes shape through afterthoughts, mistakes and transformations, reflecting the complexity of a path that does not seek to resolve itself, but to remain open. 

Danesi's work offers a crossing: a threshold to be inhabited, where time denounces its metamorphic nature, revealing itself as an inner space, fragile yet necessary. "And the world is a dream. / But behind the dream, where the clear / deeper is, there / is made a light that will not go out..."  

photos credits: Francesca Migliorin