adrian paci
Di queste luci si servirà la notte
Water as a metaphor for movement and flow, but also an opportunity for action and reaction.
A many-faceted corpus of works offering intense, poetic interrogations centring on the themes of migration, identity and movement as flow. Tracking individual stories and calling to mind facts and transformations which have made recent history, Paci transcends his personal experience and addresses migration and mobility as ontological conditions, a highly-topical enquiry at a moment in history in which the very concepts of ‘home’ and ‘identity’ (cultural, political and social) are continually brought to the fore and questioned. Existence is interpreted as a continual search, as unceasing movement, and water is the taken as metaphor for human drifts and flows. ‘Di queste luci si servirà la notte,’ Adrian Paci explains, ‘began as a work centring on the Arno river, a performance action; but the focus soon shifted toward a reflection on the dialogue and the tensions that exist between light and dark, between surface and depth, between the visible and the invisible. Man’s presence seems to be the spark that ignites this dialogue without ever pretending to bring it to a conclusion.’ ‘Adrian Paci’s project started far off in time,’ explains exhibition curator Valentina Gensini. ‘We have been working together for two years, establishing a privileged relationship with the Florence metropolitan area and with the river.
This is the idea developed by Adrian Paci for his Di queste luci si servirà la notte, the solo exhibition by the Albanian artist on from 11 November 2017 until 11 February 2018 at the Museo Novecento and the Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea venues in Florence and sites in the municipalities of Pelago and Montelupo Fiorentino, co-producers of the project as a whole..
Adrian Paci, Di queste luci si servirà la notte, 2017. Photo credit: Simona Fossi