Relation

[...] Although there is no story supporting the image, it is through the video-processing of the writing and the interview off-stage between The Stranger and Theaetetus (from the “Sophist” by Plato), that “Relation” offers a pace similar to one of the aspects of narration. This is not a story in images, because it uses a meaningful structure which passes through the word, not just as a sound body but as a semiological act, and the writing shown uses the principle of sequences and visual pauses.
The image is minimal, black and white, a still shot of the movement of the windscreen wiper of a car which is “washing away”, as it modulates in a precise cadence the emergence and disappearance of words, the emergence and disappearance of the conceptual meaning they transmit.
Annamaria Di Giacomo relies on the metaphor to state that diversity, dissimilarity and otherness are the result of the urgency to compare something or someone, of a comparison between two states, between two elements, between two individuals. Indeed, everything is different and for that reason everything is identical: the difference is a blank background and searching for it is futile.

FIAMMETTA STRIGOLI