Elisa Giardina Papa

For the exhibition Leap into the void. Art Beyond Matter, Elisa Giardina Papa (Medicina, 1979) created three sculptural elements placed on GAMeC's façade. Brush Stoke is made of flat sculptures, replicating the white and grey checkerboard texture used in image editing software to indicate the "transparency" effect, conventionally corresponding to the idea of emptiness, the absence of an image. Through their flatness, they negate tridimensionality flattening any depth on a two-dimensional plane and suggesting to the viewers an alternative reading of what they are seeing, encouraging them to use their eyes as photographic lenses. When the sculpture is placed in a physical environment – in this case, the building's façade – it cancels a section of it, penetrating it with a "void brushstroke" and questioning our capability to distinguish the different planes of reality.