FACOLTÀ PARANOICA

FACOLTÀ PARANOICA
Site Specific installation
Luigi Presicce & Anna Capolupo
A project curated by Valentina Guidi Ottobri
November 2022, Turin

TORINO 3-6 NOVEMBRE- THE OTHERS
An installation designed by Luigi Presicce and Anna Capolupo curated by Valentina Guidi Ottobri A physiological faculty. Empathic and Transcendent at the same time. The term παράνοια comes from the Greek and means "madness". Madness, who in her humanist praise of Erasmus of Rotterdam proclaims herself to be of "divine" origin, daughter of Pluto, god of wealth and youth, and says she was raised by Ignorance and Drunkenness. Today we can say with certainty that the paranoid faculty is that essential right to imagine what does not exist, to hear what is whispered in the wind, to enjoy flavors never tasted before, to touch and shape the material following an inspiration that takes our whole mind making us "experience" and "free" our fantasies. The paranoid faculty is nothing more than the use of our perceptions through which we unravel from the chaos and the crowd.Here is the way to revive our true nature, which emerges as a ray in the clouds, as a source of water in the desert. We are among the one, none and a hundred thousand, between images and words that are sterile because they are emptied of their own meaning. A society of comedians who sail aimlessly wearing masks made on purpose to conceal their weaknesses and ambitions in a sound and visual continuity that distracts and enchants as in a music box. Behind the scenes there are naked and ungainly bodies, ethereal beauties, divine and warm sparks capable of melting the snow as the sun does, delirious follies, or on the contrary dreams too “beige” for the multi-colored cabaret. A reality full of ideas and fantasies, a mistake that can become an obsession, as for those who follow the path of art, which leads to the exaltation of forgotten worlds and times now unknown. The warning to the visitor is to go back to observing in perspective, feeding a multilateral vision in a communion between reason and imagination, the sum of the reason for being that is activated by means of daily rituals that remind us who we are out of everything.