Amani Bodo

Rebecca Russo, in the context of Roma Arte Nuvola, has acquired, for the Videoinsight® Collection, the work by Amani Bodo “Mamiwata” 2025, acrylic on canvas, 134 × 124 cm, Galleria Primo Marella, Milan, Lugano

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Arte in Nuvola celebrates its fifth edition

by Giorgia Basili and Nicola Zanella | 25.11. 2025

Flashback Habitat

Butterfly

Flashback Habitat. Ecosistema per le culture contemporanee

in collaboration with Videoinsight Foundation – ets

Butterfly by Rebecca Russo

VideoArt from Videoinsight® Collection

25.09.2024 – 30.03.2026

25.09.2025 | Talk by Tita Giunta

The butterfly is one of the most powerful and universal symbols of transformation, rebirth, and inner beauty. Its life cycle—from egg to larva, then to chrysalis, and finally to winged creature—represents a profound process of change and growth. It symbolically represents the soul, the passage between worlds, between life and death, between darkness and light. It is associated with freedom, the lightness of being, but also with fragility and impermanence, since its existence is brief but intense, like certain precious moments in life. The butterfly invites us to let go of the past, to accept change, and to have the courage to evolve. It reminds us that even what appears immobile or dark (like the chrysalis) can contain the seed of something wonderful. Human wounds, however painful, can become wings for soaring flights of emancipation and awareness, openings through which light enters. Every pain experienced, every fall, every loss leaves a mark, which is not just suffering: it is also memory, experience, truth. Limitations, losses, cause cracks, within which the possibility of transformation hides and reveals itself. Fragility inspires authenticity, strength, and radiance. Failure, faced with awareness, can become compassion, depth, art. Scars tell a story: they are not a flaw, but a form of beauty, truer. Vulnerabilities can transform into resources: becoming sensitivity, the ability to understand others, the desire for authenticity. The butterfly is poetry in motion, a silent messenger of hope, transformation, and new life.

Artworks:

Janet Biggs, Can’t find my way home, 2015, 09 min. 45 sec.

Maurizio Camerani, Sub, 1994, 06 min. 06 sec.

Emilia Faro, The Prince’s metamorphosis, 2010, 03 min. 29 sec.

Michael Fliri, Getting too old to die young 2008, 00 min. 47 sec.

Kate Gilmore, My love is an anchor, 2004, 07 min. 06 sec.

Goldiechiari, 1969, 2010, 04 min. 23 sec.

Vlatka Horvat, Restless, 2010, 08 min.18 sec.

Polina Kanis, Eggs, 2010, 17 min.28 sec.

Ali Kazma, Dance Company, 2009, 10 min. 17 sec.

Edson Luli, What is man, 2014, 06 min. 55 sec.

Marcos Lutyens, The subjective self: twinnapse, 2013, 01 min. 40 sec.

Ursula Mayer, The crystal gaze, 2007, 14 min. 39 sec.

Marcello Maloberti, Blitz, 2012, 07 min. 58 sec.

Masbedo, Glimà, 2008, 18 min. 26 sec.

Hans Op De Beeck, Parade, 2012, 11 min. 17 sec.

Fabrizio Passarella, Il Giardino Rabescato, 2003 – 2016, 15 min. 48 sec.

Fabrizio Passarella, Dreams, 2022 – 2025, 17 min. 30 sec.

Cheryl Pope, Stacks, 2010, 10 min. 05 sec.

Sissi, Daniele ha perso il treno, 1999, 01 min. 30 sec.

Michele Tombolini, Indelible marks, 2016, 17 min. 13 sec.

Ulla Von Brandenburg, Singspiel, 2009, 06 min. 39 sec.

Arte Mondadori | Novembre 2017

Arte Mondadori Novembre N. 531 2017

Museo Riso di Palermo
The Videoinsight® Collection by Paola Stroppiana
Cento Opere della Collezione Videoinsight® di Rebecca Russo

Arte Mondadori Novembre 2017
The Videoinsight® Collection by Rebecca Russo

Tra le opere presenti: Keren Cytter Something Happened 2007, Ulla von Brandenburg Singspiel 2009, Marinella Senatore Speak easy – Director’s cut 2009, Nathalie Djurberg Untitled (Acid) 2010, Laure Prouvost The Artist 2010, Hans Op De Beeck Parade 2012, Kate Gilmore My Love is an Anchor 2004, Ragnar Kjartansson Mercy 2004, Katarzyna Kozyra Lou Salomé 2005, Tobias Zielony The Street (C.P.A.) 2014, Ali Kazma Dance Company 2009, Larissa Sansour A Space Exodus 2008, Agnieszka Polska I Am the Mouth 2014.