KAIROS is a project by Susanna Cati articulated in seven artworks/containers, each of which
contains fragments cut from the space/time of the artist’s life, and seven tapestries/stories,
made by layering reflections and observations inspired by KAIROS, here understood in its
meaning of tiny correction that promotes a new positive outcome of a phenomenon.
The lockdown anomaly plunged into our lives suddenly at the beginning of 2020 has changed
our perception of CHRONOS (the linear time). The 69 days during which time has taken on
parameters different from those to which we were accustomed have led the artist beyond this
known dimension towards the exploration of KAIROS, a time indefinite in duration but defined
by the quality, the thickness, the depth of the events.
The artistic research coincides here with the personal one in a painstaking work of recovery,
classification, analysis that draws from his own history: sifting through the memory he identifies
every tessera that makes up the complex mosaic. The result of this exercise of deconstruction
and reconstruction is declined in the seven chapters of a narrative that investigates the mystery
of who we are, balanced between who we have been and who we will become.
How close some who are dead are to us! How far away are some who are alive!
These words have inspired this work that even in its trapezoidal shape makes one think of a
“shrine” of memories. Inside, a carpet with Armenian iconography, a pillow, a disturbing doll, a
small bag embroidered with the words “let go”; a Wunderkammer of intrinsic and extrinsic
memories. The theme of death also recurs in this work, but not as a definitive word, but rather
as a displacement of the absent object and a joy of memory.
artist’s fabrics and objects, threads
cm.25/18×11/21×9
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