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Lasciando tutto a desiderare is an invitation to inhabit desire, to be always in the attempt of the encounter, even of the missed one.

We will not say this with a flower, but with a garden, even if "this is not a garden" but the image of a garden. Images in the shape of flowers. Remains fossilized, discovered and brought to light. Memories of the past that transcend time. Fossils, traces on an earthen stage. Memories of a lost garden. What was there before? Earth, there was earth!

The proposed intervention is an attempt to plant images, sounds and suggestions evoked by the space that holds time. A place of suspension, of things not said, dreamt or left to macerate in silence. A generous place protected by everything but desire. Desire that is always desire of the other, or of an elsewhere. An encounter possible only in the practice of absence, in that lack where the living of desire in its unjust measure is nested.

Voices, words, sounds and gestures lost around a handkerchief, because between desire and a flower there is always a distance, and sometimes it happens to be an elsewhere.

Lasciando tutto a desiderare (Milan | 2020)

Earth - iron - paper - sounds and words

On the earth, among the iron flowers, crumpled paper with a wish written on it.

The courtyard will become a garden and a place of collection of desires; the users of the work, those who are on the street, those who stop to look, to feel, even for a moment, are asked to feed this small heritage of desires thrown to the earth.

Using the sheets of paper collected on the wall and a pencil, everyone is invited to leave a trace, to write their desire, to crumple it (keeping it secret), and to throw it among others, expanding and modifying the entire work.