It is a society in which the solid era of progress has come to an end, in which everything slips and the flow drowns out all persistence, all permanence, all rigidity. Ours is a magmatic world, elusive in its relationships, postmodern in its total absence of the granitic semblance of an ancient world. The fact that fluidity belongs to the human being is indicated both by our biological composition and by the composition of the very society in which we are immersed. The predominance of becoming over solid being is a very dated concept, formulated centuries ago by the thinkers of the very first modernity and the predominance of historicity over contemporaneity is nothing but the sign of a predominance of flowing. "Everything flows", you can not descend twice in the same river and you can not touch twice a mortal substance in the same state, but because of the impetuosity and speed of change it disperses and collects, comes and goes. Pantha Rei, is one of the most famous aphorisms attributed to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus and it is no coincidence that, to explain the philosophical maxim, the image of water comes to help. Tasteless, colorless and odorless fluid that carries with it the breath of life and hope. Water is inside and outside of us and has permeated our lives - and our thinking - since the dawn of civilization.
We are attracted to water, we are composed of water, we live with the need to assimilate water. And so it is that our whole existence is based on this small molecule, on these imperceptible hydrogen bonds that form, break and reform in milliseconds, making water a "dynamic" substance with unique characteristics and properties. The enchanted charm of water bewitches us, enchants and lulls us with its wave motion and, making us resonate in us melodies from the instinctive flavor, evokes innate stimuli of a time that was. On the other hand, that transparent liquid attracts us, its sight inspires ancestral reminiscences, its fresh and wet nature invites us to immerse ourselves in the dense and clear fluid. From the primordial soup came to light the first unicellular living beings - probably bacteria -, from the amniotic fluid we feel protected until the day we come to light. Water is the mother of the world as we know it, water is the parent of the precious and imperceptible spark of life. H2O, invisible molecule announcer of existence. One atom of oxygen and two atoms of hydrogen. International Contemporary Art exhibition
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