Solar Dogs, Spazio In Situ, Rome, 2023
Collective exhibition with Francesco Andreozzi, Sveva Angeletti, Alessandra Cecchini, Francesca Cornacchini, Marco De Rosa, Federica Di Pietrantonio, Chiara Fantaccione, Andrea Frosolini, Giulia Gaibisso, Daniele Sciacca, Guendalina Urbani

Solar Dogs is an exhibition that experiments with the relationship between reality and fiction as a condition of contemporary experience. Reasoning on the idea of ​​the double, the collective exhibition focuses on the gray areas of the relationship explored through a critical reading of the image in the present.

The title refers to the “sun dog” (or parelion), a rare optical phenomenon that causes two suns to be visible in the sky. Freely inspired by the text "The Invention of Morel" by Adolfo Bioy Casares, in which the appearance of the double sun insinuates in the author the doubt that what he observes is not entirely real – he will discover that it is a reproduction of the reality whose original has been lost – the exhibition presents a narrative component that stimulated artistic production according to trajectories free from any predetermined format.

 In activating a meta-narrative, the collective exits the confines of the exhibition as such to project the public into a fictitious dimension, in which the uncanny is the protagonist of an aseptic and surreal scene. Specially designed for the occasion, the eleven works find themselves spread across a place outside of time and space, each time focusing on the interaction between creature and creation, image and identity, life and death. In the same way that in today's present we live inside a huge film, in which virtuality is central in the construction of personal and collective identity, like characters who move inside a story whose author is unknown, Solar Dogs plays with the language of the image, becoming itself a potentially infinitely reproducible narrative.