Lisa Dalfino e Sacha Kanah – Forze Apparenti

In the unprecedented setting of the sixteenth-century Cistern, Lisa Dalfino and Sacha Kanah present an “expanded portfolio,” a synthesis of an ongoing research on the potential of matter in a system, in its dynamics of transformation, symbiosis, coexistence and recomposition. In this performative encounter, the artists convey, with large-format photographs, a path through their artistic practice, in which the experimental dimension complements study in areas such as physics, chemistry, biology, botany, as well as the human and social sciences.

Lisa Dalfino and Sacha Kanah’s work explores the expressive and cognitive limits of language through the sculptural genesis of imaginative natures. The study stems from a polycentric inquiry into the conditions of possibility that formless matter can acquire in a system, revealing unknown apparatuses and potentials for interaction. The dynamics of materialization are conveyed through physical actions and intellectual and discursive practices related to bodily life and material phenomena, including the inorganic world, technologies, organisms and non-human processes.

The aim is the formalization of narrative presences of novel environments and ecosystems, which narrate culturally suspended relational spaces in a pre-linguistic archaic zone, between reality and invention, between materiality and meaning. Experimenting with the boundaries of space and matter through the production of sculptures, drawings, sounds and photographs, Dalfino and Kanah investigate the possibilities of knowledge and relationship through uncoded forms and approaches, where each element is proactive in producing phenomena and experiences.

The concept of biomimesis, addressed to unknown natures, is applied as the main tool for learning and understanding forms of intelligence implicit in any material entity, animate or not. The basis of many explorations stems from the use of a material archive in the making, composed of collections of ‘expert’ materials from a variety of scenarios, with which alphabets and systems of conveying chance are developed.
Lisa Dalfino and Sacha Kanah will present a portfolio expanded and adapted to a particular location in the Castle.

In this performative encounter, the artists will convey a rhythmic scanning of photographs, concerning some suggestions of a journey through dynamics of materialization and systemic interaction, which introduce and delimit accesses to novel environments and ecosystems, defined as new natural and cultural orders, subject to physical and non-physical forces and variables. This work is proposed as an ongoing documentary synthesis of some of the material and narrative research addressed by the duo, in a trans-disciplinary study of the limits of language and its conditions of possibility and potential.