Marco Evaristti 20 Nov

The Echo of Silence

In a time dominated by noise, demands, and unbroken signals, silence does not appear as emptiness, but as a space for new beginnings. In the works, we encounter suits without bodies, shoes without steps, shadows reaching toward something unknown. These are images that do not close a story, but open one.

The hanging suit beside the rope immediately points to absence and downfall, yet the light streaming in from behind transforms the scene into something more than an ending: it becomes a place of transformation. The absence of the body turns the clothing into a kind of relic – a testimony to what has been lived, but also a promise that meaning does not cease simply because the body is no longer present.

Here we step into an aesthetic where silence is anything but passive. It is charged with memory, but also with possibilities. It recalls the Japanese concept of Ma (間) – the interval, where meaning arises precisely in the pause. And Yūgen (幽玄) – the beauty of the suggested, of that which cannot be directly expressed.

The light permeating the works reinforces this duality. It is not a merciless light, but an insistent one, opening the shadows and reminding us that even in the image of stillness, there is movement. Silence does not become an ending, but an invitation: to pause, to listen, to find meaning in what normally disappears in the noise.

Silence is not a lack. It is a fullness. A space where the absence of the body transforms into a presence – not as an ending, but as a beginning that awaits us.