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.
Stati Generali della Salute, Siena, 2025
Stati Generali della Salute, Siena, 2025
‘Art that heals’
On March 22, 2025, Santa Maria della Scala hosted the first day of work of the 2025 edition of the exhibition dedicated to healthcare promoted by the Municipality of Siena. The day was dedicated to the analysis and story of how Art is and can be a valid support for Treatment. Through music, painting, theater and other disciplines, in fact, it offers a channel to express emotions and experiences that are difficult to verbalize, helping to process trauma or stress. The dances opened at 9:30 with institutional greetings from Nicoletta Fabio, Mayor of the Municipality of Siena; Giuseppe Giordano, Councilor for Health of the Municipality of Siena and Cristiano Leone, President of the Santa Maria della Scala Museum Complex. The debate, moderated by the journalist of La Nazione Cristina Belvedere, proposed interventions with professionals from all over Italy and Europe: the artistic director of the Teatri di Siena Vincenzo Bocciarelli, the artist Cesare Pietroiusti, Irene Sanesi, co-founder of the Cultural Welfare Center of Turin, Enzo Grossi, coordinator of the Art and Health course at the University of Italian Switzerland in Lugano, Rebecca Russo, Founder and President of the Videoinsight® Foundation, Agnese Pieracci, head of the University Hospital of Siena, Cinzia Leone, famous actress and special guest who brought to the stage the testimony of how important art can be for health and its therapeutic power. Vincenza Ferrara and Paolo Zamboni held an immersive in-depth laboratory at Visual Thinking Strategies, an innovative method that uses cultural heritage as a tool for learning, promotion and social inclusion, improvement of interpersonal relationships, cultural mediation and well-being.
Siena Health General States 2025
The city of Siena confirms its position as a point of reference in the national and international debate on healthcare with the second edition of the Stati Generali della Salute, an initiative promoted by the municipal administration to address the new challenges of the healthcare sector. Three days of meetings, insights and interactive activities led experts, institutions and citizens to reflect on key issues for the well-being of the community. The morning of each day was occupied by conferences and debates, with professionals of national and international calibre, while in the afternoon dedicated activities and initiatives took place. “With this second edition of the Siena Health General States, Siena confirms its role as a protagonist in the debate on healthcare and well-being”, declared the Mayor of Siena, Nicoletta Fabio. “We have chosen three symbolic places in the city to underline the link between history, culture and health, with the aim of building the future of healthcare and services for citizens together”. The Councilor for Health of the Municipality of Siena, Giuseppe Giordano, reiterated the importance of the initiative: “With the States General of Health 2025 we want to renew our commitment to the promotion and protection of health, involving the entire community. Siena has always been a center of research and innovation in the medical and biomedical field, and we intend to enhance this identity through the comparison and sharing of ideas”.
Sala Italo Calvino, Antico Ospedale Santa Maria della Scala, Siena
Can Art be a form of Care? A journey between science and creativity to rediscover Art as Care.
Speakers: Vincenzo Bocciarelli – Actor, Producer, Artistic Director of the Siena Theaters, Cesare Pietroiusti – Visual artist, founder and coordinator of many research centers, projects and art conferences, Irene Sanesi – Co-Founder of CCW-Cultural Welfare Center, Enzo Grossi – Scientific Advisor Bracco Foundation, Founding Member Cultural Welfare Center of Turin, Coordinator of the Culture and Health Course at the University of Italian Switzerland, Rebecca Russo – Founder and President Videoinsight® Foundation, Philanthropist, Collector of Contemporary Art, Agnese Pieracci – Director of the AOU Senese, Cinzia Leone – Actress, Vincenza Ferrara and Paolo Zamboni – Visual Thinking Strategies
Rai Radio Uno – Life
Rai Radio Uno | July 13 H12,40 Life. Obiettivo Benessere Interagire con l’Arte. Intervista a Rebecca Russo
Conduce: Annalisa Manduca In redazione: Ada Marra, Antonella Romano Regia di: Luca Bernardini
Latvian National Museum of Art
17 February 2017 H11
Latvian National Museum of Art | Cupola Hall
1 Janis Rozentāls Square | Riga, Lettonia
Lecture by Rebecca Russo, Italian Art Collector, Philanthropist, Maecenas, Psychotherapist, Scientific Researcher, President of Videoinsight® Foundation.
Rebecca Russo’s patented Videoinsight® Method, based on the healing power of selected contemporary art works, has been used in clinical psychology and psychotherapy, as well as medical treatment of patients.
Gazzetta Torino
22 Novembre 2016 | Gazzetta Torino
Liceo Germana Erba – Teatro Nuovo Torino – Coreutico e Teatrale
Videoinsight® Foundation launched in 2016 the “Videoinsight® Art for Care School Project” in Secondary School at Liceo Teatro Nuovo in Torino – Liceo Germana Erba, Coreutico e Teatrale. Students interacted with videos from Videoinsight® Collection applying the Videoinsight® Method. Goals for the experience have been the promotion of human resources and health, the prevention of well-being and of psychological discomfort in adolescence, the development of creativity. Videoinsight® improved the mood, stimulated cognitive functions and creativity, improved self confidence and motivation, reduced anxiety, aggressive behavior, fears and negative emotions. The Curator for the project was Giovanna Giovannelli.
University of Delaware, Videoinsight® Lecture
Videoinsight® Art for Care ‘The Healing’ 2015
‘VIDEOINSIGHT® ART FOR CARE’ 2015
by Silvana Piatti, Tita Giunta, Giovanna Giovannelli
In the ‘Videoinsight® Art for Care’ Programme 2014, before and after seeing 11 selected high impact Videoinsight® Art Videos, 100 spectators underwent three psycho diagnostic tests: the STAI anxiety measurement questionnaire, the BECK questionnaire, which evaluates depression and POMS questionnaire, which reveals mood state.
The three tests showed considerable differences in the spectators’ levels of anxiety and depression before and after the Videoinsight® Art for Care experience.
In the Videoinsight® Art for Care Programme 2015 100 spectators will undergo a Graphoanalysis assessment before and after viewing ‘The Healing’, a video by Emilia Faro according to the Videoinsight® Method and expression of Videoinsight® via Drama Therapy Dramatisation.
The aim of the experience is to verify the impact of an artwork on the spectator’s psychological and physical health.
The experience, as usual offered at no cost to the participant and by appointment, will take place at the Videoinsight® Centre, running weekly from Thursday 9th April at 7pm in four sessions:
– Writing a text for the Graphoanalysis assessment
– Viewing of ‘The Healing’ video by Emilia Faro according to the Videoinsight® Method
– Expression and elaboration of Videoinsight® through Drama therapy
– Writing a text after viewing the video.
Graphoanalysis assessment by Silvana Piatti
Drama Therapy by Tita Giunta
Organised by Giovanna Giovannelli
Supervised by Rebecca Russo.
Artissima Fair, I WANT TO BE A FUTURIST, 2014
On 9th November 2014 h12,15 am in Artissima Fair, Meeting Point, Oval Lingotto, Turin, Italy there will be the Talk “I WANT TO BE A FUTURIST” by Manuel De Santaren – American Collector of Videoart, Co-chair of the Photographic Comittee Solomon Guggenheim Museum NY, Member of the Commission of the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, Member of the Board of Directors of the Cisneros Fontanals Foundation of Miami, Videoinsight® Foundation Board Member – and Rebecca Russo – President of the Videoinsight® Foundation, Director of the Videoinsight® Center, Italian Collector, Founder of the Videoinsight® Advanced Course Degree at the University of Bologna, Researcher, Philantropist, Writer, creator of Videoinsight® Method, Videoinsight® Concepts, Videoinsight® Formats.
