Specie elastiche per crepe dinamiche

The works of “Starry Speculative Night” express the attraction that the cosmic void arouses in us, a field of enquiry in which it is possible to think of a world far removed from an anthropocentric logic. This speculative horizon is what Eugene Thacker calls the world-without-us. A negative metaphysics where thought constantly turns towards its limits, towards the threshold where positive knowledge turns into negative knowledge.

In the night that falls over the space, the work of Luca Petti (Benevento, 1990) instead diffuses the glow of bismuth, a metal that covers the sculpture of a kiwano, a fruit cultivated in the Ligurian territory. This fruit is wrapped by the artist in an iridescent surface, an envelope of toxic colours that enhances the fragility of the climbing plant, giving it a character of extraneousness and luminescence.