Surprise. 

Not standardizable.

In the above photo, a detail taken from the exhibition  ‘Sony World Photography Awards 2023’ held at the Museo Diocesano in Milan.

“So that I can say - as I’ve already said elsewhere - that my relation with Pirandello’s[1] work has some resemblance to the relationship with one’s father : which at first is paid for, feeling it as unjust and obsessive authority and repression, then raising us to rebellion and rejection; and finally quiet and free considering and accepting it in recognizing more similarities than, typically adolescent, differences.”[2]

It is surprising the attributing to the adult – even without naming – of a capacity of presence that demands work but that ‘the adolescent’ neglects, independently from chronological age : it is here, as a matter of fact, that the ‘typically adolescent’ prevents the uniqueness of ‘I’.

An adult – this is the surprising experience of Sciascia – is not standardizable, and independently from chronological age.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – November 15, 2024

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[1] Luigi Pirandello (1867 Girgenti/Sicily – 1936 Rome) was one of the most known Italian writers and dramatists, and 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature. Leonardo Sciascia (1921 Racalmuto/Sicily – 1989 Palermo) was also a very famous essayist, dramatist, politician and member of the European Parliament.

[2] Cited from ‘Pirandello e la Sicilia’, by Leonardo Sciascia – Adelphi editore (1996), p. 241