Dato un muro, che cosa succede dietro? at Struttura / Rome

Artist(s): Alessandra Cecchini, Riccardo D’Avola-Corte
Art space: Struttura
Address: Piazza dei Santi Apostoli, 81, Rome
Duration: 06/05/2025 - 30/05/2025

From May 6, 2025, Struttura presents the duo-show by Alessandra Cecchini and Riccardo D’Avola-Corte, “Dato un muro,
che cosa succede dietro? ”(Granted there is a wall, whats going on behind it?)*.
The proposed intervention has as an essential reference M. Duchamp’s Étant donnés as well as some paintings, photographs
and therefore images in which from small details of reflective objects a part beyond the wall is revealed, opening the
surface to new spaces and possibilities.
The wall is conceived as an instrumental, functional element of an event and thus of a changing, dynamic and uncertain
present. Moving in space is thus like moving from outside to inside, from bottom to top (and vice versa), without ever
being able to be certain of where one is, of what one has seen.
Each element on view is thought as part of a storytelling that cannot be traced back to a single decoding but becomes a
hallucinatory experience of something that potentially does not belong to the physical, tangible world.
The constituent elements that enclose or open the space are not intended as surfaces, then, but as essential architectural
elements designed to contain, to enclose another portion of reality (or a contradiction of it), an interstice between
worlds. A space that claims to be in direct connection with the viewer, like a scenario composed of potential clues and
hypothetical traps.
There is no unambiguous explanation of what has been seen, what has really happened or the inevitable interferences of
imagination.
Viewing of the works is planned for an audience of two people at a time.
In order to better manage the visits, it will be necessary to make reservations by email, at the following email:

The duo-show is also accompanied by a critical text by Caterina Taurelli Salimbeni