“The forms of time” by the Apulian artist Teresa Vella from Sunday at the MUST in Lecce

“The forms of time” by the Apulian artist Teresa Vella from Sunday at the MUST in Lecce.

It opens Sunday 8 October at 19.00pm, in the conference room of MUST Historical Museum of the City of Lecce, the contemporary art exhibition “The shapes of time” by the Apulian artist Teresa Vella. Speakers together with Claudia Branca (director of Must) and Fabiana Cicirillo (councilor for culture of the Municipality of Lecce), Federicapaola Capecchi (curator of photography and collaborator of the Spazio Tadini Casa Museo) and Dores Sacquegna (curator and art director of Primo Piano LivinGallery) .

“The forms of time” is an excursus among the works of Teresa Vella, which brings to the exhibition a diversified cycle of works including photography, installation and glass sculpture, playing between two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality. A sensorial journey into the material and its metamorphosis with glass sculptures, the result of great mastery and collaboration with the well-known master glassmaker Mario Dei Rossi; the photographic cycle between black and white and nuance that explores the concepts of time and two installations with materials taken from historic homes, which play on memory but also on the fragility of things. The exhibition offers visitors the opportunity to immerse themselves in atmospheres full of questions and meanings.

Federicapaola Capecchi, writes: “Between glass, stone, metal, downspouts and roots, Teresa Vella places us in front of a sequence of photographs that show nets and ropes in places by the sea, blurry paths, broken window frames, an electronic music mixer, stairs dazzled by light, fragments and abstract forms, self-portraits through Murano glass sculptures... the artist is a multifaceted figure, eager to cross the boundaries of artistic disciplines and to merge different expressive forms into a single experience, inviting us to reflect on the relationship between time, memory and fragility".

Dores Sacquegna, writes: “Teresa Vella's research fits fully into the way of telling time through time itself, that is, using it as a tool and material for storytelling. His modus operandi can be summed up in the metaphor of the research on 'lost time', that time that creeps through the meshes of memory with an irregular pattern but, through his vision, becomes listening time, time that lives and pulsates between oscillations and memories". 

In November, it will be presented to the public the catalog with the complete texts of the authors.