"I imagined the landscape as the unfolding of time upon surfaces, including my own. The outer layers contain an inner part. Fragrant surfaces – like wax or marzipan – or soft ones, like raw clay, compose a theatre of sweet images that belong to time: a barely sketched car (Gita), the cast of a beach shaped by the tide, imagined as the side of a female body (Nudo).
A collection of universal images that speak of a slow and inexorably welcoming landscape; one rooted in the time of the Mediterranean. Some mirrored shelves from an old patisserie, recently closed in the centre of Turin, act as ruins or a portal (capriccio). Along their upper edge, they host fragments of artifacts unearthed near ancient Greek and Archaic–Siceliota settlements.
A small slab of marble, painted with cyanotype – with the light of the sun – contains a sketched in pastel a map of the sky and the arrangement of the stars at a specific, potentially meaningful, moment. It suggests where we are – or where we’ve come from (natal chart). On the ground, a loaf of bread – or perhaps a stone – glazed."
– Renato Leotta
Unfolding of Time (Archaeology-Patisserie) press release
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