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.
Museo Riso
Il Resto del Carlino | 13.10.2017
13.10.2017 | Il Resto del Carlino
I LOVE YOU
‘I LOVE YOU’, the Show created and produced by the Videoinsight® Foundation www.fasv.it, will be launched on December 3, 2015 h7 pm at the Videoinsight® Center in Turin, Italy.
It will include paintings, sculptures, installations, videos and photographs taken from the Videoinsight® Collection.
Artists
Amina Benbouchta
Fatma Bucak
Keren Cytter
Gabriele De Santis
Nezaket Ekici – Shahar Marcus
Mounir Fatmi
Simon Fujiwara
Orazio Garofalo
Ewa Juszkiewicz
Yazan Khalili
Joseph Kosuth
Katarzyna Kozyra
Sigalit Landau
Taus Makhacheva
Joanna Malinowska
Aya Momose
Agnieszka Polska
Thomas Ruff
Melati Suryodarmo
Alejandro Valenzuela
Ronald Ventura
Francesco Vezzoli
He Wei
Image: Francesco Vezzoli La Bandita 2002 Videoinsight® Collection
The exhibition is dedicated to the most beautiful and indecipherable sentiment: Love.
It focuses on a primary, vital, urgent, universal, mysterious theme, with an individual and social actuality. Energy, Eros, Thanatos, attraction, passion, attachment, intimacy, nourishment, tenderness, rebirth, emotion, falling in love, affectivity, fertility, creativity, ritual, redemption, magic, mystery, relationship, communication, memory, history, imagination, reciprocity, confidence, courage, empathy, dreams, prophecy, but also unknown, risk, dependance, repetition compulsion, conflict, betrayal, manipulation, crisis, separation, abandonment and loss will be crucial issues.
All artworks present have High Videoinsight® Impact. They provoke interior visions, illuminations, emancipatory discovery, change, achievement of the Psycho-physical wellbeing. They stimulate free mental association, interpretations, narrations, emotional resonances, insights.
Viewers can interact freely with the works, expressing their Videoinsights®, discovering those of the others, in a research process that can become transformative chance.
The exhibition is part of the innovative Program Videoinsight® Art for Care 2016, cured by Giovanna Giovannelli Tita Giunta and Silvana Piatti supervised by Rebecca Russo Rebecca Russo Rebecca Russo Rebecca Russo. Spectators will participate to the interaction experience with each artwork according to the Videoinsight® Method. The curators will drive the spontaneous groups in the process of Elaboration of the Art Images through the Videoinsight® experiences, Scripture and Corporal Expression through the Theatre-therapy. The course is aimed to promote Awareness and new Resources for the Evolution.
Love is the best Revolution.
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