Quand
installation for the 'art au centre#6' project, 2021

cactus and helium inflated balloons
2021

Metaphor of the «slow disasters», Valentina Perazzini’s installation "Quand" is the chronicle of a disaster foretold. Heirs of a civilization that mistreated nature way too much, helium-filled balloons seeking escape are recaptured by a ceiling that vows them to an ineluctable destiny. Once tired, they will initiate their ineluctable descent, they will encounter what nature left behind for them: a row of cactus.[...]

In resonance with the current sanitary and political situation, Quand, once interrogative, titillates the interface between reality and fiction, and creeps into the cracks between conscious and unconscious. [...]

Christophe Depaus