Impressive.
The silence of a passenger.
In the above photo, a passer-by or a passing inhabitant ? Taken from the exposition ‘Pratza ‘e domo. Una casa semiotica mai costruita’/ June 29 – November 3, 2024, Museo Nivola - Orani (NU).[1]
“This means :
- that there is indeed a benefit for a subject if you present yourself as a subject of benefit, when your ‘goods’, properties or talents as a matter of fact… are points of support for a contribution… by an Other…
- but that there is a condition for the benefit : that these talents are not relied upon by you as autonomous sources of claims in the encounter with the Other…”[2]
What is briefly suggested, and then walks away, remains more stable in one’s memory rather than what insists by giving weight – but your memory crumbles into crumbs. The silence of the passenger is a talent, or rather a legal silence.
Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio- October 10, 2024
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[1] Pratza ‘e domo (literally : ‘home square’) takes up the expression that in Sardinia indicates the space in front of a house, often equipped with a chair or a bench on which you can rest, a private but also public area. Nairy Baghramian created the exhibition following the awarding of the Nivola Prize for sculpture 2023, also showing works by other Artists : the author thinks of a readable, pleasant and welcoming home, for ongoing projects which elaborate the past but whose boundaries between institutional and social indicate tension and fragility. Organized by Giuliana Altea, Antonella Camarda, Luca Cheri.
[2] Cited from ‘Talento negativo’ - ‘Il pensiero di natura. Dalla psicoanalisi al pensiero giuridico’, Giacomo B. Contri SIC Edizioni 1998, p. 155.