Letizia Ardillo Libera-mente

“Libera-mente” is the title of a collective exhibition curated by Roberta Mandoliti and Laura Di Stefano, hosted at Impact Hub, an art gallery in Rome, from July to September 2022. Not only an exhibition but also a place where different art expressions freely meet. Painting, sculpture, video art, engraving, photography, and illustration all aim to open the spectator’s view to other possible worlds because reality dwells inside the imagination. The common thread of Libera-mente is the unlimited mind, where free associations, thoughts, and ideas are originated and translated into images, sometimes abstract, sometimes dreamlike.Letizia Ardillo’s installation: “The forms of knowledge” is made with 22 cards 20 X 22 cm. each represents the Jewish alphabet. In Jewish tradition, especially Cabbalà, letters are a gateway to holy scriptures, especially in the “formation book “one of the most ancient mystic Jewish books that tell creation through letters exchange. Mixed techniques such as collage, gold and silver leaf, ancient paper, pencil pigments, and ink on Fabriano paper, proposes. The letters tell the creation story.Texts by Roberto Luciani