GIORDANO FLOREANCIG - AMNESIE
06.06.2025 - 06.07.2025
THE ART OF FORGETTING - a project by Zerial Art Project, curated by Elisabetta Zerial
GO!2025 Borderless Nova Gorica Gorizia European Capital of Culture
Amnesie for an entire community, two cities, two nations, with a shared vision of rediscovering, reinterpreting and celebrating cultural heritage. Zerial Art Project presents the exhibition Amnesie, curated by Elisabetta Zerial, as part of GO!2025 – Borderless Nova Gorica Gorizia European Capital of Culture. Amnesie is developed as a widespread project that brings together ten contemporary artists in four emblematic places of the cross border territory: Casa Krainer, Palazzo Lantieri, Kinemax and Vila Vipolže.
Nova Gorica and Gorizia, once divided by a political and ideological border, today become the symbol of a Europe without barriers, crossed by shared memories and collective traumas. Eleven site-specific solo exhibitions — by Stefano Cagol, Nina Carini, Federico Clapis, Massimo Gardone, AndreasSenoner, Desideria Burgio, Andrea Guastavino, Marco Bolognesi, Giordano Floreancig, Camilla Marinoni and Marina Moreno — explore amnesia as a fluid condition of contemporary existence: loss, removal, oblivion, but also a fertile space for a possible regeneration of memory. Amnesia, in fact, is not just a subtraction: it is a void which can become possibilities.
In Nova Gorica and Gorizia, cities once divided and now united, art becomes a bridge between past and future, between multiple identities and a common feeling.
Villa Vipolže hosts two projects within the Amnesie review, which explores the relationship between memory, oblivion and the construction of identity.
Giordano Floreancig presents a series of invented portraits, made in oil on canvas, strongly material and full of anxiety. His faces, never existed but believable, question the viewer: who are you, if you have been prevented from remembering where you come from? Identity, in this context, emerges as a mosaic reconstructed from forgotten or distorted fragments.
Massimo Gardone presents a visual research that declines the theme of amnesia through the landscape and the environment. His photographs of nature, devoid of human presence, become poetic reflections on what the memory of the landscape retains, erases or transforms, inviting a deeper contemplation of the relationship between man, nature and time.
Villa Vipolže, with its history made of passages and stratifications, thuscon firms itself not only as a physical place, but also as a metaphor for a collective identity in constant rewriting.
The declinations of Amnesia
In this review, amnesia unfolds in four overlapping and intersecting areas.
On a historical and geopolitical level, amnesia acts as an instrument of power: by choosing which events to pass on and which to erase—world wars, imposed borders, genocides, or resistance movements—it creates fragmented identities, suspended between memory and oblivion. On a psychological and emotional level, it is a defense mechanism of the unconscious: forgetting to protect oneself from trauma, but risking losing parts of oneself, leaving open wounds. On the environmental and landscape front, we have lost the deep connection with nature, the rhythm of the seasons and ancient knowledge, while the landscapes themselves become silent archives of submerged memories - ruins, abandoned sites, traces of a past that resists.
Lastly, in the area of archives and identity: who are you if you have been prevented from remembering where you come from?
Often, identity is built precisely from what has been forgotten or distorted, in an attempt to mend what has been separated. Amnesia manifests itself in the dispersion of documents and the erasure of stories, questioning the construction of the self when roots are denied.
Amnesia is a journey through these languages and territories, a mosaic of visions that gives voice to what has been silenced and transforms the void into a space for reconstruction, in a poetic act of resistance and rebirth.
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