Artists

Virginia Russolo

Press release

RIBOT is pleased to present A Darkness shining in Brightness which Brightness could not comprehend, the first solo exhibition at the gallery by Virginia Russolo (Oderzo, 1995, lives and works in Crete).

The project includes a series of previously unseen works that narrate and represent the artist’s most recent poetics and research, focused on investigating themes such as the relationship between humans and other species, the intelligence and adaptability of natural materials, transformation and metamorphosis processes, and the origins and methods of ritual practices.

The title, a verse taken from Ulysses by James Joyce, could be conceived as the first work on display. Its repeated reading resonates like a magical formula, a spell that leads the viewer into a parallel dimension where a semantic and symbolic reversal takes place. The darkness “shines” in the light and no longer symbolizes a dangerous threat; rather, it becomes a possibility, an invitation to observe the world, nature, and the beings that inhabit it from a different perspective.

​This radiant darkness is evoked by the brown and shimmering silk that covers and defines exhibited the sculptures. This emblematic fabric—hand-sewn onto a metal core and treated with a recipe based on organic raw materials—refers to an idea of metamorphosis and becomes the materialization of a passage, a radical and generative transformation that instills vitality into the form.