Silvia Gatti : the world of non-being

“Libretti” is the result of a three years experimentation on abstract and non linear writing.
The contents of the books constantly fluctuate between human suffering and desire, as a response to one’s fundamental differentiation between ‘the self’ and 'the other’. As infants we exist in an expansive realm of sensational togetherness with the world around us. As we slip into the structure of our social and cultural reality we absorb language and we are taught to construct our own identities by alienating the otherness felt within our inner selves. Late in life or due to traumatic experience, we cannot help but feel that something is missing within our innermost beings, that we contain a certain void, a lack born from our separation from the other. As soon as we come to realise that, we experience that this void is unfulfillable and so we begin to suffer and to desire." [taken from artists website]