Documenta

Italo lives in Saviore dell'Adamello, in Valcamonica. His life changed after meeting some groups of Native Americans, whom he had the opportunity to host: coming from afar, along different but deeply connected paths, their gazes will come together in a new spiritual journey. The anticipation of this encounter makes the passing of time a journey in which Italo slowly experiences the changing seasons, savoring every moment of the cold winter, awaiting the arrival of summer and an Indian chief.

Inspired by East German writer and critic Christa Wolf’s 1984 novel Cassandra, about a struggling female artist and visionary. In Search of Vanished Blood comprises six 11-minute video projections streamed around the room through five clear Mylar cylinders, hand-painted with a variety of cultural and historical iconography, which hang in the center of the room. As the Mylar cylinders rotate, the colorful and layered imagery is projected onto the walls, creating a magical environment reminiscent of lantern slide presentations and other proto-cinema experiments in the 18th and 19th centuries