For the third appointment of the exhibition cycle “A question of survival”, Margherita Morgantin presents the video entitled Quick Thinking (2007) , together with a series of drawings on the wall inspired by the Sardinian landscape and conceived specifically for the Museum space. The video features images of a boat trip taken by the artist between Venice and Trieste, along the navigable canals of the lagoon.

The specularity of the horizon created by the reflection of the water causes a slow and almost imperceptible reversal of the perspective, a complete rotation of the horizon which recalls the motion of a slow revolution and the rotation of the earth. Progressively the landscape transforms into the drawing of an ink stain which becomes the key to access a different depth of introspective vision. The adherence between the internal forms and those of the landscape/maquis thus offers itself as a tool for reading things, a free investigation of the area between the representation of the forms and their fragile interpretation.

The need to recount travels or any other experience becomes evidence of the existence of an area of ​​friction between imagination and reality, the true place of life shared by bodies, symbols and feelings. The drawings made with marker on the wall, and connected to small monitors on which short video sequences appear starting from the last white signs of the “fast thought”, are graphic traces that establish correspondences between the fixity of the drawing and the mobility of the images. The result is a perceptive geography, with temporal layers that mix, capable of creating a visual language in perpetual mutation