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
Inspired by the seabed of Scylla, in fact, where the conjunction of extremely rare factors has
generated a seascape that finds few comparisons in other parts of the world. It is enough to
immerse oneself for a few moments in its limpid waters to be enchanted by the scenario that
appears before the eyes. The textile medium gives us back a work that wants to be a tribute to
“how” – “how” nature knows how to weave extraordinary tapestries with negligible threads and
imperceptible contingencies. (from the text by Barbara Pavan, catalog of De rerum natura).
wool, viscose webbing, denim fabric,
tufting, knotting, macramé, crochet
cm.60×50
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