Suspended Times
Dzialdov, Berlin
11 March - 02 April 2023

We died of Anxiety
‘cos they threatened us with Darkness
as if it would even exist
(excerpt from Eclisse, 2023)

The exhibition Suspended Times deals with loss, deterioration and becoming, related to both the emotional and material landscape. Moving through the exhibition among fragments of poetry, broken marble, copper pipes, paintings based on concrete and droning sounds, the artist invites the viewer to enter a liminal zone of alienation offering a mirror to our times.

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Natura Morta con Eclisse, detail, 2023

Natura Morta con Eclisse, installation detail at Dzialdov, Berlin, 2023

video by Nicolas Rupcich

Art Installation Marble painting abstract concrete image cut up

Natura Morta con Eclisse, installation detail, 2023

Art installation marble

The exhibition develops from the poem titled “Eclisse” composed assembling fragments of poetries written by the artist. The text acts as a narrative voice looking at the past and elaborating on the human experience and its existential struggle. Displayed in printed form on wall, the text spreads to the walls as ghostly appearances (details below).

The installation “Natura Morta con Eclisse” includes broken pieces marble and granite floating on coins, image cut-ups and photos, dried flowers and fruit placed on a rubber surface. These fragments of marble, a material commonly regarded as valuable, are discarded pieces that were meant to be crushed and mixed with asphalt and gravel to build the roads we walk on everyday. The stones are here placed on top of coins to reference the ancient practice of placing coins in the mouth of a dead person before burial, so that their soul could pay to be carried in the world of the dead. Different elements of this installation reference a state of becoming. The artist is interested in the liminal state of in-betweenness, both in relation to the material state and to the self.

Suspended Times, Dzialdov, Berlin, 2023

video by Nicolas Rupcich

Art installation painting concrete marble abstract classic

Left on wall: Per Aspera ad Aspera, concrete, pastels on canvas, 18 x 24 cm, 2023 - Santo Niente, paper cut-up, 40 x 50 cm, 2003
Right on wall: Inferno 4, concrete, collage, pastels, acrylic paint on canvas, 90 x 100 cm, 2020

Center on floor: Natura Morta con Eclisse, marble and granite debris, dried flowers, pomegranate, image cut-up, inkjet prints, 2023
Center on wall: Kaputt Mundi, concrete, pigments, pastels on canvas, 90 x 100 cm, 2019 

Poetry art installation engraving on wall white

Eclisse, poem, inkjet print on 160 gr paper and engravings on walls, installation view, 2023

Art installation poetry on wall

Eclisse, poem, inkjet print on 160 gr paper and engravings on walls, installation view, 2023

Art installation Poem wall engraving
art installation Poetry engraving on wall

Following the interest for both the constructing and deteriorating characteristics of concrete, in reference to the urban environment, since years the artist has been using this material as a medium for creating paintings. These works are based on multiple layers of matter, built up through many stages of constructing and deconstructing. A practice built on the accumulation of time, material and history that the fragments carry with them in the process of becoming part of something else.

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Inferno 4, detail

Abstract concrete colorful painting collage
Conceptual art Abstract concrete text painting classic image saint

Inferno 4, concrete, collage, pastels, acrylic paint on canvas, 90 x 100 cm, 2020

Per Aspera ad Aspera, concrete, pastels on canvas, 18 x 24 cm, 2023
Santo Niente, paper cut-up, 40 x 50 cm, 2003

The second environment evokes contemplation and the unknown, creating a space both charged and suspended in time.

Two copper pipes extend from the walls, suspended just above eye level, facing each other with a one-meter gap in between. On one side, a small painting made of quartz sand appears on the wall; on the other, a subwoofer rests on the floor, emitting a low resonance that subtly activates the space. The arrangement creates a silent tension, a presence shaped as much by what is missing as by what remains.

Pipes are objects that inhabit our urban environment as if they were essential anatomical organs of a vast body, laying outside of our direct field of interaction. Once discarded, like the broken marble, here they stand exposed, marking a threshold within the space.

The copper material that constitutes these objects, with its characteristic of naturally changing chemical structure and color under the agency of oxygen and weather, reference a state of natural ongoing transformation. Like the fragmented marble, these pipes—once cast off, their original use displaced—exist in a state of transition, carrying the traces of their past while becoming part of a new sensory dialogue. The space holds a quiet tension, where sound, material, and stillness converge, leaving the viewer in a moment of charged reflection.

Subwoofer sound installation

Binding the works together is the soundscape Untitled Sequence in D, composed of a continuous looping D note, which frequency believed to resonate with that of the human heart. Played through a subwoofer, its deep vibrations extend beyond hearing, becoming a physical presence that interacts with the body. In contrast to the themes of deterioration, the sound offers an invisible yet grounding force, anchoring the experience in presence and the present moment.

Eclisse, artist booklet, 10 x 15 cm, 2023

As part of the exhibition, the artist self-published an exhibition concept booklet titled after the poem Eclisse (2023). This work includes the poem, pictures present on the installation Natura Morta con Eclisse and fragments of marble and granit present in the installation. The booklet is printed in an edition of 40 copies, one fragment for each year of the artist life to the exhibition date.