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.