Time that “perhaps” unveils Truth: Online Exhibition curated by Stefano Cagol, contemporary artist exploring social themes such as identity and climate crisis

This resolutive speed hides an immobility of thought, which appears like La Peste, portrayed by Armin Boehm about fifteen years ago on canvas with the dark tones of pigment, but also, not by chance, with oil and metal. The work seems to transpose the viscosity of today’s issues well dissected by Timothy Morton, who coined the concept of hyperobject to describe widespread, interconnected, and non-localizable phenomena such as climate change, the capitalist system, or nuclear radiation. These phenomena, as real as they are elusive, redefine our way of thinking about the world and our responsibility toward it.

In a submerged and distant reality, a light arrives on a flooded world, as if to suggest that trying to clarify things to understand them better is the only way out of a tunnel, the only ark of salvation in a deluge that sweeps everything away. It will be the truly illuminating brightness that shows us the way to freedom, as represented in Bologna Tunnel #4 by James Casebere.

I have often reflected on the idea of the flood, a concept linked to humanity since the dawn of time, across multiple cultures. It generally incorporated the will of other deities, while I am convinced that the flood is us, like an antidote— but this is possible only through commitment to knowledge.