Luisa Badino

Assumption of a prey with eyes bigger than its stomach is an invitation to relinquish conviction and embrace uncertainty. It evokes a human hunger driven by desire, drawing the viewer toward a fragile and porous membrane: a layered bioplastic environment resting on a movable, multi-armed steel hinge. Acting as a foldable mirror, the structure has absorbed the surface of a ceramic mold, where the fragmented, floating body dissolves into the bioplastic.

As Giuliana Bruno suggests, the surface is a site where inner and outer worlds converge, where consciousness and the unconscious remain in flux, allowing for unrecognizable transformations and playful metamorphoses. These shifts reflect the process of creating the bioplastic and pigment: a membrane shaped by slowness, where water evaporates gradually to form a delicate patina. These “unstable mirrors” repeat and distort perception, generating a threshold, both physical and symbolic, reminiscent of the one crossed and inhabited by the mythological trickster archetype.

Through the dispositif, a shifting assemblage of relations, the lens becomes both optical trap and organic parasite, inhabiting the architecture and generating fleeting glimpses of contemporary mythologies. The structure holds a tension between concealment and revelation, stillness and motion, allowing a new perceptual field to emerge at the blurred edge between vision and memory.