LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea – Roma is proud to present Still in Motion, a group show curated by Marco Puntin.

Still in Motion is meant to be a proposal and a confirmation at the same time. If it is commonly believed that one has to look back in order to move forward, we add that it is also necessary to remember what one is.
We are nowadays besieged by society’s (and economy’s) attempt to mould us at its own use, and to establish needs whose satisfaction triggers a vicious circle in which individuals get lost in a sea of logos and trends.
It is that anxiety to achieve fresh success and miraculous changes which constantly obliges us to avoid living in the present in order to project ourselves towards the expectations of the immediate future to come. Or rather, he who lives wounds himself. Almost a duty, certified and codified by advertising, by that which makes and is the fashion. This quite disheartening picture require us to impose our own voice, even if dissonant or strident, in order to assert our will, taste and eventually our own time.   
Instead of planning objectives and strategies we have found ourselves discussing present and past, all agreeing in maintaining that, if the present is movement and becomes past in the very moment it is named, the future, dark and unforeseeable, is static and motionless until it becomes present, at which point, however, it will already be past.

It is movement that gives time its significance though: days follow each other because of heart’s rotation, so do seasons for the revolution of our planet around the Sun. In a similar way, with the works and the artists participating to Still in Motion we would like to attest that “our earth” is still moving. The title of the exhibition also implies the stasis of the still frame, of photography, and its only apparently contradictory relation with movement. No need to say that it is not possible to perceive the movement that drags us without respite, but lingering in this apparent calm we manage to catch a glimpse of the vortex only through direct or indirect images.

The works of Still in Motion demonstrate the coherence of a propulsive project that does not fear the inertia. They are small units documenting the movement and its prodigious encounter with stasis.

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