FLASH: The Lake of the Unknown

‘The Lake of Unknown’ by Giovanni Ozzola (Florence, 1982) will give life to an exhibition within the exhibition, a process in transformation where the work is not presented as a finished result but as a search in constant becoming. The exhibited pieces will be complemented by a new work that will emerge from a performance held on Thursday, September 18th at 7:30 pm, in a continuous dialogue between matter, gesture, and time.

In the half-light of a suspended space, outside of time, a man approaches a slate stone. His hands, guided by an awareness of the material, begin to draw signs on the dark surface. Each incision is a luminous wound in the mineral night, each stroke a route into the unknown. The sound of the scraped stone fills the air, a primordial echo resonating in the collective memory.

Like a navigator of the intangible, the performer follows a deep impulse, tracing paths that resemble lost maps, signs of an archaic language that seems to emerge from the earliest expressions of human consciousness. The black stone becomes witness to an obsession, to the ancestral need to leave a mark, to inscribe existence into matter and time.

It is the same impulse that has guided explorers and dreamers, those who have followed the call of the unknown to the ends of the earth. Each groove is a step toward mystery, a dialogue between the hand and the memory of the earth. The performer continues, tireless, as the marks multiply and the sound of the slate merges with the heartbeat, with the breath of the sea, with the voice of those who ceaselessly search.

Thus, between shadow and light, between sign and silence, the geography of an inner journey is drawn: a map of discovery and loss, of beauty and time, of the human and the cosmic.