Dialogue in Silence

Chiara Capellini's exhibition "Dialogue in Silence" is articulated within the consecrated spaces of the Church of San Bernardino alle Monache, presenting itself as a silent conversation between the visitors, the works and the sacredness of the place. The disposition of the paintings — which show their backs to the entrance — combined with the observer's need to turn his back to the altar in order to look at the painted surfaces, produces a confrontation between spirituality and artistic creativity, which is to be resolved through silence.

The choice to paint works that don't represent anything and don't seek the figurative, but focus on actions such as putting on and taking off colors, assimilates the act of painting and its result to a sort of meditation. In this way, the installation becomes an opportunity to reflect on the relationship between art and spirituality through a meditation on emptiness. The silence that surrounds the installation is the tool that helps us to get in contact with the nothingness, with the unknown.