In Il fiume (The river), I give form to that instant in which life reveals itself: brief, unexpected, almost imperceptible. The work arises from the desire to hold onto what usually passes through us without allowing itself to be grasped — the continuous flow of encounters, gestures, choices, presences. Because the river does not ask: it takes. It carries with it experiences, people, spoken words, missed opportunities and actions taken; everything flows and blends into the perpetual movement of time and society.

At the center emerges a single subject who, though looking at the viewer with quiet awareness — as if for a brief fragment they had perceived their own being part of something greater — does not resist the current. In his gaze lies the awareness that everything flows and changes, even when we are unable to hold onto it. The painting is the trace of that moment in which we recognize ourselves in the universal movement, before life resumes its course.

Il fiume is therefore a reflection on the fragility of the instant and on our belonging to the rhythm of the world: an attempt to make visible what usually passes unseen.

Italy, Florence, Segni, OnArt Gallery, 22 November - 2 December, 2025

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