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curated by Federica Balletto

Alice Rissotto was strolling on the beach after a swell, collecting objects; in fact, they were the ones that captured her; she was not looking for anything; she did not want anything. From that encounter began an intimate relationship with objects that were not just objects but scraps, residues, out of use and definitions, simply beings, creatures, entities, acting like everything else. Together, they took forms, binding themselves to wooden reeds. Then the memory of the sea returned, the salt; salt as matter, non-living yet moving. Everything moved, everything had intention, everything was life.

It seemed impossible for her to perceive herself as a unitary subject, defined and concluded as a human being; everything acted on everything, everything was interconnected, everything was everything. Salt climbed, enveloped things, fragility. Then, things called their return to life. Their interaction could not be exclusive or relegated to a closed, defined space. It was simply an encounter. Things happened, intertwining their existences.

It was the world interacting with the world, creating spontaneous and unique languages. There was no control over things; one had to get out of possession, out of attachment, and not act violently towards them. He returned to the place of their meeting, returning everything to life, to existence.

BIO

Alice Rissotto is a local artist completing a three-year course in Art Didactics at the AccademiaLigustica di Belle Arti in Genoa. Two years ago, Alice embarked on a path in the field of installation art, starting with an encounter with objects, residues, and fragments that had been washed ashore by the sea. Her works speak of the archaeology of objects, ecological consciousness, margins and “third landscape,” liminality and fragility, overcoming human/non-human binaries. His research is a process that develops in an intimate and fluid dialogue with objects, matter and spaces, materializing in different forms in transformation and change.

photos credits: Francesca Migliorin & Federico Ghillino