The still event (enchantments), a project curated by Saretto Cincinelli and Cristiana Collu for Gavoi’s Island of Stories, intends to deepen the investigation of that changing border territory that maintains a close relationship between cinema, video and contemporary art, bringing together artists of different generations and nationalities, masters such as the Portuguese Jorge Molder (Lisboa 1947), the Canadian Mark Lewis (Hamilton 1957), protagonists of the Italian and international scene such as Andrea Santarlasci (Pisa 1964), Emanuele Becheri (Prato 1973), Christiane Löhr (Wisbaden 1965), Sophie Whettnall (Brussels 1973), Kan Xuan (Xuan Cheng 1972), Farid Rahimi (Lausanne 1974). The exhibition, integrating some plastic works (drawings, photographs and sculptures) into the video exhibition – a peculiar feature of the initiative – aims to explain the motives and movements of an image poised between flowing form And fluxus formae .

The “enchantment” of the vision, to which the title alludes, is achieved through the foregrounding of what we could define as a “less” dimension of the image: a dimension which, being missing, ends up having repercussions après coup on the expectations of the viewer and on the expressiveness of works that voluntarily escape the eloquence and spectacular predictability of much of the contemporary artistic language. In each of the works proposed, some dimension typical of the specificity of “cinema”, “video”, “drawing” or “sculpture” tends, with greater or lesser radicality, to dissolve but, as in a game in which whoever wins loses, the works seem to gain from the economy that characterizes them, an economy that, paradoxically, ends up giving them a surplus of presence.