Ongoing – FASV

Flashback Habitat, Turin

“Butterfly” by Rebecca Russo

September 25, 2025 – March 29, 2026

Video Art Exhibition from the Videoinsight® Collection

in collaboration with Videoinsight® Foundation – ETS

Hall C – Cinema Area

Flashback has always explored what lies beneath the surface, embracing marginality, and capturing the fertile, transformative, and revolutionary ground of artistic practice in the physical and mental “elsewheres” of everyday life. In this same spirit, the mission of the Videoinsight® Foundation is to use art as a healing tool, introducing it into various social contexts or institutionalized healthcare spaces to enhance its regenerative and growth-enhancing power in vulnerable individuals. Thus, the Butterfly exhibition fits into the important and complex history of Flashback Habitat, a former orphanage in Turin that welcomed mothers and children from the 1950s to the 1980s, now an open ecosystem, a shared home for contemporary people and cultures.

Rebecca Russo tells us: “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, of awareness, openings through which light enters. Every pain experienced, every fall, every loss leaves a mark, which is not only suffering: it is also memory, experience, truth. Limits, losses, cause Cracks, in which the possibility of transformation hides, reveal themselves. Fragility inspires authenticity, strength, and brilliance. Failure, faced with awareness, can become compassion, depth, and 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.

https://www.flashback.to.it/le-mostre

Artists / Works:

Janet Biggs, Can’t find my way home, 2015, 09′ 45”

Maurizio Camerani, Sub, 1994, 06′ 06”

Emilia Faro, The Prince’s metamorphosis, 2010, 03′ 29”

Michael Fliri, Getting too old to die young, 2008, 00′ 47”

Kate Gilmore, My love is an anchor, 2004, 07′ 06”

Goldiechiari, 1969, 2010, 04′ 23”

Vlatka Horvat, Restless, 2010, 08′ 18”

Polina Kanis, Eggs, 2010, 17:28

Ali Kazma, Dance Company, 2009, 10:17

Edson Luli, What is Man, 2014, 6:55