Space of Resonance
The exhibition documents a series of 50 images taken from freelance artists and collectives working in art, culture and entertainment from Brescia and the broader province. The portraits depict the protagonists’ closed and restricted living experiences during the pandemic. Simultaneously each image is paired with an autobiographical description. The exhibit -itinerant, free, inclusive- took part in Bergamo Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023, with 5 stages. The photographic project aims to light up several stories inspired by the variegated and cultural city of Brescia, giving a voice to those who continued to create during a difficult time of thunderous silence. The goal is to collect and share the various stories in a single narrative of photographic shots, which is not claiming to be complete but wishes to understand the articulated Italian cultural panorama.
The title “Spazio Risonanza” (Space of Resonance) takes inspiration from the work of the composer Luigi Nono who aimed to create a "musical space" for the “Opera Prima Prometeo”. The phenomenon of resonance in physics occurs when an external force acts on a physical system with a frequency capable of amplifying the motion of the system itself; the goal of this report is to synchronize the purpose of each participant to the project through their “tools of art” amplifying the resonance effect.
Through the portrayed voices, the images aspire to imprint in our memory a time of changes and, in the same vein as Cacciari, with the desire to create an instrument that does not allow the sound to flee but to retain and resonate it.